Search Details

Word: talkers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...intensity of a more limited drama. But each scene is so interesting and the whole texture of the play is so rich with its cadence counts, lap-hopping whores and old rock songs that it's impossible to say what should be deleted. Rabe's too sweet a talker. And anyone who can make 1966 eerie and fascinating shouldn't be tampered with...

Author: By Whit Stillman, | Title: Basic Training/Pavlo Hummel | 4/14/1972 | See Source »

sleeves, Lindsay also made repeated appearances on Miami television in a series of one minute commercials, offering himself to be electorate as a "fighter" rather than a "talker." But he nonetheless lost yesterday's round of the battle on the tube to Jackson, whose supporters bought up three half-hour slots to air their documentary entitled "a different kind of candidate...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Florida Field Crowded for Tuesday's Vote; Wallace Thought Leader as Race Winds Up | 3/11/1972 | See Source »

...late 1961 Mrs. Jean Nidetch, then a compulsive eater and an equally nonstop talker, decided to use one of her characteristics to combat the other. She began holding meetings with overweight neighbors, during which they encouraged each other to stick to diets. As the 48-year-old Mrs. Nidetch never tires of relating, that was the start of a new life that has transformed her from a 214-lb. Queens, N.Y., housewife into a trim 142-lb. career woman. It also was the beginning of a multinational business, Weight Watchers International, that is gaining financial weight as rapidly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTERPRISE: Fortune from Fat | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

Finally--and by this time, we've realized the three women are three sisters--Ma is introduced. She's a tough old lady. As much of a talker and as big a pain in the ass as any-of her daughters, as Pa (Robert Donley) himself points out. You're a wrinkled old bastard, she replies in the crisscross of invective that bind the two together. And Furth has made his point. Each of the women is her mother's daughter ("Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined," to quote Pope on the matter) and each...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Towards a Comedy of Lost Possibilities | 10/28/1971 | See Source »

...however, according to one of Vigilant's crew, D.R. Santos, "the Russians grabbed him, about four of them, and beat this man viciously. One of them grabbed a ship's phone cord and was going to wrap it around the defector's neck when the phone talker pulled the cord away. While this happened, another Russian was beating the defector's head against the rail of the ladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Refugees: How Simas Was Returned | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

Previous | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | Next