Word: talkfest
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that would allow hunting under strict licensing. In a quandary, the government invoked another six-month talkfest, after which it promised to introduce a bill to settle the sport's fate. But the backbenchers are angry and hunting's future looks bleak...
...recent past that made this conservative Democrat from Ceres, Calif., the centerpiece of a cable-TV talkfest in the slow news months before the world changed. Levy, a Washington intern from Condit's district with whom he admitted having a "close relationship," was last seen at a Washington health club on April 30. Condit is not a suspect in her disappearance, say Washington police. His crime, Condit claims, was not participating in the feeding frenzy, at least until a disingenuous interview with Connie Chung on ABC last summer. "From the outset I was talking to law enforcement, being helpful, telling...
...earliest episodes established a format that has varied hardly at all in "The Tonight Show" or most any other late-night talkfest: the theme song (Steve's own "This Could Be the Start of Something Big"), the bantering band leader (Skitch Henderson), the announcer (Jack Lescoulie), the opening monologue, the host's desk and the guest's couch, the featured spots for singers (Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, Andy Williams) and comics (including Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Shelley Berman...
...Jerusalem, Yossi Beilin, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister, also insisted that the summit would have a positive impact. It showed, he said, that ``a bloc is being created for peace.'' But for most Israelis, the talkfest in Cairo changed nothing. The main issue is whether the Islamic terrorist campaigns will be halted...
Neither has Linklater. His Slacker and Dazed and Confused had huge casts, rambling narratives and a notion of film as a grab bag of blasa attitude and barroom philosophizing. It's all very '90s. Before Sunrise, on the other hand, seems instantly dated. This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets Harry meets Sally, wins points for daring to be a love story-how defiantly unhip is that?-and is presumably meant as sensitivity training for 20-year-olds. But in reaching for winsome charm, the film falls flat. This meeting of bright minds often plays like desperate...