Word: backchat
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...need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel. I need a guy who can backchat like Fred Allen, only better, and get hit on the head with a beer truck and think some cutie in the leg-line topped him with a breadstick...
Last year Trudeau occasioned more backchat when he had Henry Kissinger appear on This Is Your Life while figures from his past reminisced. Said Sometime Date Marlo Thomas: "I'm reminded of the many children who were maimed and killed during the Christmas bombings of Bach Mai Hospital." "But . . . that's awful," sputters the host. Says Marlo: "You bet! Why do you think we stopped dating?" That strip has been nominated by Trudeau's syndicate for a Pulitzer Prize...
...does not have enough money to make it to northern California without parking her station wagon here and there to take odd jobs. For another, she has an eleven-year-old son (Alfred Lutter) who is smart-mouthed beyond his years and slightly unbalanced by her alternation between backchat and smothering in the attempt to show love for him. Moreover, Alice, who admits to 35 and cannot hide an overripe figure, does not have much left of a voice that probably was not much to begin with. She is, in short, a long shot for success...
...more than four decades, Oscar Levant slew his friends-with insults, wisecracks and backchat. When he died at 65 last week, Levant had become a Hollywood legend: the Oscar that no one could...
...Business and Blackmailers Don't Shoot, and two full novels, The Little Sister and The Long Goodbye. The difference between the two novels reveals an uncomfortable truth. The Little Sister is vintage Chandler. The plot is ingenious and preposterously complicated. Detective Philip Marlowe is full of tough backchat ("Cracking wise," he would call it). In The Long Goodbye, the paranoia and self-pity that engulfed Chandler in his last long work, Playback, are already in evidence, and the prose and characterization are flaccid. Still, this is a rich enough sampling to send any true fan back...