Word: talker
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...Nonstop Talker. An intense, eager, nonstop talker, Zarem is insecure enough to see an analyst three times a week. If he meets someone he knows after a session he may stop him on the street to rehash it. His office is on Fifth Avenue, but his favorite headquarters is Elaine's Restaurant, Manhattan's top celebrity hangout. He often winds up his 15-hour days-usually early in the morning-at his fourth-floor walk-up bachelor's pad on Manhattan's East Side with a diet cola and a Stouffer's short-ribs...
...responsible for New York's hip, hyped visual package, concedes that his longtime friend Felker is "very abrasive, very argumentative," but insists that "the chemistry works. It's all a great mystery." Bestselling Author Gail Sheehy (Passages), Felker's steady companion, considers him a fascinating talker but adds, "He's the most impatient man I've ever known. He's incapable of spending ten minutes at the typewriter." Sheeny adds that Felker is "almost worshipful" of good writers...
...that's the best that can occur (assuming that you don't lose to Columbia, Yale and Dartmouth to Princeton, and if all three of these things occur, then Jimmy Carter is a straight talker...
...beat Carter is Carter [Sept. 20]. He is a compulsive talker often forgetting what he has said before and sticking his political foot in his mouth...
Long Shot. It has taken all this time to find a true talker. Arlen might easily have fixed his face in a harsh attitude. It would have been facile for him to sentimentalize the Armenians, Saroyan style, or to hold them at arm's length, as his father did. Instead, after the atrocious accounts and the sense of humanity's dreadful fragility, Arlen realizes that the "I" has become part of "them," that "to be an Armenian has meant that one has been compelled by circumstance to rise above or fall below -or, anyway, to skirt-these...