Word: yammer
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When pop was at its height in the early '60s, it seemed that nearly every young painter in America was churning out his or her cigarette packets, car grilles, Mickey Mice and talking Coke bottles. The result was a babel to surpass the ceaseless yammer of neons in Times Square. The problem of how to survive in this battering surplus of gratuitous images became acute for the serious artist, especially when the public became surfeited by having its quotidian environment rammed back down its throat, lubricated by an arty sauce...
...federal court quoting from a subpoenaed tape of Nixon's March 23 meeting, contending that it showed that the President may have been obliquely acknowledging the donation when he told the milkmen: "I must say a lot of business men and others I get around this table, they yammer and talk a lot but they don't do anything about it. But you do and I appreciate that. I don't need to spell...
While the new elite yammer in plenary session and show off their fountain pens, the new nation's problems veer out of control. There is a rising class of paper shufflers, a groundswell of expectant unemployed, a shortage of skilled labor, a trade union movement that demands more and more at a time when the country needs sacrifices, and roving bands of young thugs and looters. The inevitable result is violence and a wave of bloodshed that finally and fatally engulfs Bray on a lonely up-country road...
...dogs, but the theme is man. Imprisoned, a pack of canines -in human form-are under sentence of death unless an owner comes to claim them. Their warden is a uniformed black woman, neither malign nor forgiving, just carrying out orders. Round and round the dogs pad and yammer, seeking a nonexistent reprieve, like Sartre characters on Gainesburgers...
...Happening. "Is it real, is it fake?" yammer the Supremes over the picture's titles. "Is this game of life a mistake?" Indeed it is, at least in this film. Three fun-burned Miami boys and a girl in search of the beach goddess, Kicks, decide to kidnap a wealthy racketeer (Anthony Quinn). As it happens, Quinn is unredeemable. Desperate phone calls reveal that his wife and partner are cuckolding him ("For $200,000 you can keep the son of a bitch," she snarls). His Mafia associates refuse to extend their black hand; even his mother would rather help...