talkathon

At its best, the talkathon of 2009 did a few useful things.

Now the mood has turned gloomy again as the annual talkathon moves through its second month.

Republicans accused Democrats of wasting time on a fruitless talkathon.

The talkathon might have been Tuesday.

That was embarrassingly clear at the first really big show of the incoming Administration, the 19-hour talkathon in Little Rock on the economy.

So the high-powered talkathon was relegated, much as it has always been, to the back pages and business news segments of the evening news.

BlogTalkRadio held a 12 hour talkathon for poverty relief.

Nestled between Alpine peaks blanketed with snow, this plush resort is the scene of what many call an annual talkathon for business and political leaders.

Shepherd more or less invented the term night people and day people, and frequently on his four-and-a-half-hour nightly talkathon defines them.

The shame is that while the heavyweight division has turned into Don King's talkathon and Foreman's theater, the best boxers are mostly ignored.

The extraordinary Senate talkathon was as much as anything a demonstration of the unmistakable deterioration in relations between the two parties with no accommodation in sight.

He held a talkathon in Little Rock before he started his presidency - also for self-serving P.R. reasons.

As the deputy minority leader last session, Mr. Sullivan helped engineer a confrontational legislative talkathon in the final days before the Senate adjourned.

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"The Good German" is a talkathon that drags out tired arguments, about the contagion of hate and the docility and shrewdness of Jews, for example.

She kept the lighting low, and they plunged into a talkathon of several hours - "lovely deep conversations," Ms. Vignau said, about work, children and not marrying again.

A solid 20 or so have proved to be instantly ready to stand up for the First Lady in the endless national talkathon and political donnybrook that Whitewater has come to to underpin.

The New Year's talkathon has been growing rapidly since its inception, particularly after Mr. Clinton's election as President when hundreds of would-be participants lobbied Mr. Lader for invitations.

But one immediate result of the White House talkathon, at which 50 people spoke and which reporters were barred from viewing, was to diffuse blame for the school shooting in Littleton, Colo., in April.

"It's rare that a new issue comes forward and catalyzes people," said John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, one of the groups that sponsored Friday's daylong talkathon on Capitol Hill.

Behind closed doors on Sunday, Bill and Hillary Clinton will be the featured speakers in one of their favorite forums, a talkathon on globalization, social investment and the "third way" of governing that they have long promoted.

However, Carson McCuller's three-way talkathon in a Southern kitchen remains more of a play, with Julie Harris as a wistful tomboy, Ethel Waters as a servant and young Brandon De Wilde.

"There is nothing better than a crowded journey with every minute full," Mr. Brook said in a telephone interview from Paris yesterday, as he prepared for a trip to the United States that he predicted would be a "three-day talkathon."