Word: talker
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...Blankenship, a poor white boy in Hannibal, Mo. But Fishkin argues that Huck's voice was in part inspired by Jimmy, a 10-year-old black servant. Twain described this boy in an 1874 article in the New York Times as "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across." Added Twain: "He did not tell me a single remarkable thing, or one that was worth remembering. And yet he was himself so interested in his small marvels, and they flowed so naturally and comfortably from his lips that . . . I listened as one who receives a revelation." Beyond...
...Nicaragua (seeing one of his party go mad) and to Moscow (enduring an unaccountable vodka shortage). He also deals with aids anxiety and other distractions. Ironic and self-deprecating (his own description), he's neither wildly comic nor deeply dramatic. He's more like a good dinner-table talker, an agreeable anecdotalist with a nice sense of the ridiculous. Oh, yes, somehow he finished the book. It's in the stores...
Ross Perot enjoys comparisons with Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt. He sees himself as a can-do guy in a can't-do era -- as a feisty straight-talker like Truman, as a bold experimenter like F.D.R., whose plan for rescuing capitalism ("Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it and try another; but above all try something") is echoed in Perot's call for "action, action, action." Perot may never be ranked with Truman and Roosevelt -- and of course he would have to win first -- but he already personifies an enduring strain in American life...
...talker. By far the most common irritant in the MAC, the talker chit-chats with his buddies about last night's party or tomorrow's midterm while others wait for the equipment he pretends to be using. Loud and obnoxious, he disturbs others with his incessant guffawing and meaningless banter. The talker should take his tea party to Boston Harbor...
...encourage, the popular pursuit of physical fitness at all levels of skill and interest, just as celebrated pianists might promote an appreciation of music among the general public. But never having taken piano lessons, I have no more a right to bang the keys in Paine Hall than the talker has to bang the weights...