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...side of his mouth about all the lovely girls he could make available to Kissinger at the slightest signal. Kissinger declined each of the three invitations, but he was tempted to say, "Look, send one around, get your pictures and then leave me alone." After that Kissinger carried a "blabber tape" with him whenever he headed for the Kremlin. The trouble with the tape, which was a jumble of incomprehensible words designed to overwhelm bugging devices, was that when turned up to the required volume, the blabber nearly drove the people in the room out of their skulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: When in Moscow . . . | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

Bennett based his belligerent blabber on a short article in Time, a perusal of the course catalogue, and a few comments by Harvard students. His research would be laughable were it not so malicious. One hopes he didn't pick up such sloppy scholarship habits when he attended law school here in the late '60s and early '70s. One also hopes he didn't allow such academic atrophy when he was a Social Studies tutor and freshman proctor...

Author: By Robert F. Cunha, | Title: Get on the Wagon | 10/16/1986 | See Source »

...fact, it is your rabid talk of overthrow that has given me the germ of an idea of how to fight your empire of evil...after all these years of hearing you blabber, I can exaggerate your comic-book Marxism to the point where it does nothing but damage to your cause...

Author: By Joseph Menn, | Title: Platonic Dialogue? | 11/19/1985 | See Source »

...This blabber-proof telecast looms as far too rare an occasion to waste only in joy over a trial separation from the stream of half-consciousness that usually accompanies athletic endeavors on the tube. While sports fans will surely relish the moment, it should also be seized for grander purposes, for awareness may just be dawning in the Age of Communication that silence is indeed often golden. President-elect Ronald Reagan has so far, often to the chagrin of the press, shown an admirable reluctance to grab all of the many chances he gets to sound off on just about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Time to Reflect on Blah-Blah-Blah | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...really wasn't much to talk about. Seven waves of U.S. jets pounded a fuel storage depot near Hanoi, and Ambassador to the U.N. Arthur Goldberg promised U.N. Secretary-General U Thant that America would cooperate with United Nations efforts to arrange a cease-fire in Vietnam. Blabber incoherently and swing a big stick -- that's the futile game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bombs Talk | 12/21/1966 | See Source »

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