Word: chattering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Certainly no artist before World War I would have thought so. The real issue has always been discovery and use, not dismissal, of the mighty energies of the past -- compared with which the fetish of innovation and the claims of revolution are mostly chatter...
...emerged in Rabbit Redux (1971) and Rabbit Is Rich (1981). A lot of readers have periodically checked the progress of their lives against that of the onetime high school basketball star from eastern Pennsylvania. Rabbit's demise seems a gloomy reminder of individual mortality. Fortunately, despite all the chatter, there is an escape clause. In his Times essay, Updike never explicitly says Rabbit dies. Neither, as readers will discover in two months, does Rabbit at Rest...
...time I was in junior high, I had calmed down a bit. I no longer came home from baseball games hoarse from the incessant bench chatter that would inevitably get me beaten up in the schoolyard the next day. I no longer spat on my palm for the postgame handshakes...
...buzz of chatter permeates the overheated bus. The conversations change topics with amazing speed. A pair of women, one of them the dark-curly haired women, discuss a mysterious stain on someone's scalp, then start talking about a math problem they couldn't solve--something about substituting theta for x. A few minutes later, the dark-curly haired woman exclaims, inexplicably, "But he's a married man, with kids...
...couple together on a homey set; mix in a potpourri of news, weather and feature segments; and keep it all going for two hours. Do it right, and you'll grab a sizable share of the audience that can't get through the pre-work hours without some TV chatter percolating in the background...