Word: kaffeeklatsches
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...intriguing discussion, without an obvious right answer. But the fact that it's even a topic of kaffeeklatsch in a trendy café on a Tuesday afternoon is just one more sign that Berlin is back...
...shop make in Harvard Square. The cozy interior at Starbucks is too contrived; Dunkin’s plastic tables don’t provide the appropriately lofty setting; and Peet’s’ cramped counters make it just a little too small to accommodate a true campus kaffeeklatsch...
Reta narrates her predicament in the first person, circling it doggedly, chattily, sometimes with a deliciously malicious wit, taking us inside her domestic routines, her comfortable, functional marriage, her kaffeeklatsch, her struggles with her own new book. (Along with everything else, Unless is rich with practical advice for the would-be novelist.) Shields swings easily from comedy to tragedy and back again--she says she doesn't really believe in the distinction anyway--pausing in between for a disquisition on the biology of the trilobite (a prehistoric creepy-crawly), an expert demolition of literary journalists (no offense taken...
Despite the setting, the Thomasons seem less interested in political satire than in replicating Designing Women. Suzanne's staff is another kaffeeklatsch of man-abused females: a spacy receptionist left by her husband (Valerie Mahaffey); a boozy press secretary fired by the Washington Post (Teri Garr); and a hard-boiled chief aide (Patricia Heaton) embittered because the Congressman whe worked for ("the man I served...under for 14 years") is now in prison and his wife is getting all the conjugal visits...
Faced with something that approached a regular kaffeeklatsch linking the White House with agencies looking into Whitewater, an embarrassed Clinton insisted at midweek that "no one has actually done anything wrong," but nonetheless added, "I think it would be better if the meetings and conversations hadn't occurred." The President ordered McLarty to issue a rule to senior Administration officials about Whitewater chats with federal regulators: Don't have them or, before you do, clear them with...