And it is a time for curbside chatter, which yesterday ran the gamut of coming silent auctions, recently purchased brownstones, due dates for new babies and the wisdom of hiring tutors for the ERB's, the toddler's version of college entrance exams.
No more time for courtly chatter and brave words; what do these people actually do when the enemy is at the gates?
In a place far more interested in substance than style, this is the perfect time for the chattering classes to head to espresso bars, cafes and plain old coffee shops to discuss not the weather but Big Thoughts.
Look too, though you won't have a hard time finding it, for chatter about West Virginia being a barometer of the challenge facing Mr. Obama, particularly with those white, working-class voters who have formed Mrs. Clinton's base elsewhere and will do so again today.
The push for original video comes at a time of chatter about a possible merger between AOL and Yahoo.
The day's work ends around five, in time for tea and chatter about this or that spadeful of triumph or mystery.
'I like The Brothers Karamazov.' As a result of his resistance and his careful filtering of information, his persona, in America at large, was that of a hard-drinking sportsman, a down-to-earth Southern gentleman farmer with little time for books or intellectual chatter.
In media and politics, last week was a time for big mouths, indescrete chatter and abrupt firings.
That is because the brain can carry out immediate visual processing even when it does not have time for any cognitive back-chatter.
"I don't have time for what I call the Beltway chatter," Mr. Davis said.
