Word: talkfest
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...Slave is essentially a kind of Greenwich Villagey talkfest. War has broken out between Negroes and whites, and with the sound of machine-gun and artillery fire in the near distance, a Negro military leader (Al Freeman Jr.) revisits his former white wife, who is now married to a white history professor. Ostensibly, he has come to see his two daughters, possibly to kill them, but mostly to gloat and watch the whites cringe before his oft-waved pistol. At one point, the professor asks if there will be more love or beauty or knowledge in the world after...
...Viennese reveled in the musicmaking of Richard Strauss, Lotte Lehman and Bruno Walter; they entrusted their psyches to Sigmund Freud and his rivals, and indefatigably dissected Stefan Zweig's novels or Joseph Schumpeter's economics in the city's celebrated cafés, fueling the endless talkfest with the best beer and coffee in the world...
Time Clocked. And so the talkfest continued - but by no means all of the time wasting had been done by Southern Democrats. Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger gave a speech on "Cigarettes -Tried and Found Guilty." Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey lauded "20 consecutive years of membership growth" of the Retail Clerks International Association. Montana Democrat Lee Metcalf complained about the Montana Power Co.'s electric rates. South Dakota Republican Karl Mundt fretted about trade with Communist Poland, and Kansas Republican Frank Carlson worried about the cattle farmers' plight...
Legislative Year 1963 is certainly a case in point. The liberals started off by insisting that the Senate change its rules so as to curb filibusters. Everyone knew that the effort did not have a chance; in the event, it cost a month of talkfest before it was handily defeated. Next, following the lead of President Kennedy, the liberals backed a plan to pack the Finance Committee headed by Virginia's conservative Democrat Harry Byrd. The idea was that a Finance Committee increased by two liberals would help in the passage of Kennedy's tax and medicare programs...
...silent partner. A bottomless black shopping bag provides the day's events. Finding a toothbrush, she brushes her teeth punctiliously. She swigs some pink pep medicine, kisses an evilly glinting revolver and dons a perkily feathered hat. "These things tide one over," she says. Her talkfest acquires a haunting reflective cadence as it flows between the vapid ("Keep yourself nice, Winnie, that's what I always say") and the apocalyptic ("Do you think the earth has lost its atmosphere, Willie?"). The falling curtain leaves her with plenty...