Word: shoptalking
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Monday. She wanted company, stimulation, talk; but needed solitude, serenity, writing. Her letters reach out for the former; the diaries embrace the latter, often during pauses from work or in moments snatched between social engagements. Compared with letters, her diaries also full of shoptalk as she labors on The Years, Three Guineas, her biography of Fry. Not that this is mundane stuff. Here was a woman who could weep over her earlier entries: "The sense of all that floating away for ever down the stream, unknown for ever." Ultimately the diaries had the same spiritual stake...
...19th century character is in grave doubt, what Streep manages to convey when she is not speaking is extraordinary. She is pleased with the performance. "I luff effrythink I do, darlink," she says, giving a brief Zsa Zsa Gabor imitation. Then she lapses into the somewhat prosy shoptalk of a college-educated actress: "When I read the book, it elicited an emotional reaction in me and I determined to re-create it for someone else through thinking and design, thought and craft. The arc I designed for the character went up and happened." Then the arc-and-craft jargon drops...
...year. (Storytellers get paid anywhere from $100 to $750 a day.) Most of the storytellers have to hold down a job. Barton works for the Ontario Ministry of Education. Even O'Callahan keeps a base on the faculty of the Lesley Graduate School of Cambridge, Mass. But the shoptalk is less about any collective or individual success of the storyteller in the near future than it is about the price of such success. "I remember what happened to folk music in the 1950s," Barton reminds everybody soberly...
Three new papers promise scoops and shoptalk for lawyers...
...these are no doubt the kinds of matters they discuss over lunch. Now heaven can wait. The American Lawyer, which served up the aforesaid juicy items this week, and two other new tabloid-format papers, are busy attending to the profession's voracious appetite for scandal, scuttlebutt and shoptalk. Unlike hundreds of established legal journals, newspapers and newsletters, which concern themselves chiefly with issues and trends in the law, the new papers emphasize lawyers per se, ad hominem and in flagrante delicto. Also how and where lawyers work, what they earn, what their jobs are like...