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...artistic elements beyond the text are as riveting as can be. It is easy to get hooked by a boy-meets-girl story; it’s a lot harder to get interested in the sight of a lucid, crippled man screaming for help while two characters blindly yammer about flag-folding right beside...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: Delusions of the Mind | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...hate it when someone at the next table in a restaurant thinks it's cool to yammer away on his cell phone? Well, there's a new book out to set him straight: Wireless Etiquette by Peter Laufer ($14.50 from Omnipoint, available at branden.com) Maybe you can copy a few appropriate pages for your briefcase and pass them out to offenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...Black people I saw in the stands.) Ticket prices are out of control. Most tickets aren't even for sale. Unless you know Mr. Tepper (like my friend's dad did) or Mr. Trump or Revlon or Nissan or Unisys, you can stay home and listen to Mary Carillo yammer...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: "Quiet, the Bor-meister is Serving" | 9/13/1989 | See Source »

...remains funny but unbowed: "The bankruptcy went very well. I've got the car running again." By the ump's own admission, he told all of his story in the first volumes and then "ran out of my own life." But that has not stopped him from continuing to yammer. This time out, he releases some odd information ("In Cleveland (stadium) they have problems growing grass, so they paint the ground green"), remembers the greatest catch by a fan and includes the autobiographies of some less than celebrated players. Rocky Bridges: "The more I played (with the Dodgers), the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Great Performances and In Performance at Wolf Trap (PBS). The Fifth Freedom-freedom from yammer-is eloquently defended in programs that do not educate us about music or sell it to us, but offer it well performed without self-congratulation or apology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Show Business, Dec. 29, 1975 | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

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