Word: gibbering
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Given the tensions that gibber and flap through most marriages, Cordelia's affectations seem rather venial, particularly since her wealth makes Richard's existence so cushy. But she and her husband live in the world of Kingsley Amis, where the rules of decorum are a lot stricter and funnier than in ordinary life. Cordelia just won't do, and The Russian Girl (Viking; 296 pages; $22.95) hilariously shows...
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Sweat and Gibber. Raven, 49, is also a writer of mysteries and high-class potboilers (Friends in Low Places) that dwell on sex and intrigue among the upper classes. But he has been a dedicated Trollopian since his undergraduate days at Cambridge. Nevertheless, he spent six months "sweating and gibbering" before he found the right blueprint for the series, which he suggested. He would throw out Trollope's character A as boring and superfluous -only to watch her turn up 700 pages later as someone essential to the denouement. Character B would be discarded, then put quickly back when...
...track tape loops piling and swishing inside their moon-shaped Plexiglas boxes, running across the heads like sepia fettucine. Every second, millions of impulses skitter down the cables, linking the Real-world beneath the podium to the Magic Kingdom: the Bear Jamboree plunks and toots, holographic phantoms squeak and gibber among the cobwebs of the Haunted Mansion, and in the antechamber of the Moon Rocket in Tomorrowland, a robot scientist holds a conversation with a scarcely less robotic Disney World hostess...
...Misanthrope was written at the time when Louis XIV had gathered the entire French aristocracy in his monkey court at Versailles to gibber and not at each other and indulge in gratuitous palace intrigues while he ran the country with a free hand. Although the setting is not Versailles, the characters in the play are all part of this glittering, shallow society, where conventions enforce a routine dishonesty, friendship and courting are reduced to foppish displays, and love is overwhelmed with calculation. In this setting we meet Alceste, the misanthrope, who is repelled by all the vanity and hypocrisy...