Babbit

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The dialogue, according to Babbit, was too fast to allow for traditional editing: “It would be like watching a Ping-Pong match,” she said.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2020

This film, directed by Jamie Babbit, tackled a serious subject with campy comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2017

“She didn’t send out any signal of interest, much less send in an application,” Arizona’s then-Governor Babbit told the Washington Post in 1989.

From Time • Jul. 7, 2016

Novels like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Sinclair Lewis’s Babbit portrayed wealth and the self-made man in America, albeit in a critical fashion.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Dr. Babbit, one of the four physicians with the colony, was sufficiently out of sympathy with Boggs to be trusted.

From The Colonists by Jones, Raymond F.