Word: talkathon
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...weeks everybody was talking, everybody was watching. Last Friday, when the pretrial hearing reached its grisly climax, was Day 26 of America Held Hostage by its own lust for sensation. On ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, ESPN2 and especially COURT TV (the all-O.J. channel), the talkathon played six or more hours a day. Afternoon ratings soared 24% above their usual levels; prime-time specials were available for the law- impaired and the jurisimprudent. If you still couldn't get enough, you must have contracted Simpsonitis, an inflammation of tabloid curiosity, which has evidently attained epidemic proportions...
...MIGHT NOT HAVE LURED MANY VIEWERS FROM All My Children. But when it came to furtive subplots, greed, jealousy and spine-chilling intimations of impending disaster, Bill Clinton's televised 19-hour economic talkathon was right up there with daytime's most overwrought soap fare...
...Vienna talkathon on conventional forces in Europe (CFE) may turn out to be something new in the history of arms control: a negotiation that could tangibly improve the daily lives of ordinary citizens, particularly in Eastern Europe...
Onstage, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the Choderlos de Laclos novel, was elegant and epicene. Les Lay caught the novel's central conceit -- that sex is a wicked game, the rankest form of show business -- in a witty talkathon on Topic A. The movie goes one crucial step further, allowing the characters to shrug off their finery and display some redeeming prurient interest. The actresses are all wanly handsome: ornaments of an era close to exhaustion. Pfeiffer and Thurman make for luscious bookends in the library of lust. Close sits back and plays the puppeteer...
...Interview section. Tracking down the P.L.O. leader took months of careful plotting. Gart finally caught up with Arafat at his heavily guarded compound four miles from the center of Baghdad. While he had interviewed Arafat on nine previous occasions, none had prepared Gart for the three-day, eight-hour talkathon that followed. Nor was he ready for the late-night meal at Arafat's table that featured five different preparations of lamb or the motorcade that careered through Baghdad at 80 m.p.h. Says Gart: "That was about as close to the Indy 500 as anything I've been...