Word: backchatting
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...another question. TV newscasts, after all, are the major source of news for most Americans. Locally produced news shows-75% of the total on the air-were never models of journalistic achievement. The average half-hour report allots only 16½ minutes to news and editorials. Even without backchat or horseplay, the program is little more than a superficial headline service...
...Tristana's success lies in the director's scrupulous ambition. Once he was satisfied with the village atheism of Nazarin or the facile eroticism of Belle de Jour. In his 29th film, he is content with nothing less than the face of Spain. Don Lope's backchat with his comrades is an indelible vignette of the inhuman condition, where the aging pick the reputations of their fallen comrades, like buzzards wheeling over cadavers. In the background hover the symbolic figures of deaf-mutes, youths whose voices, like many Spaniards', cannot be heard. Yet Tristana...
Touch and Tell. In the first groups she entered, Jane felt dismissed as an "uptight Easterner" and got off some bitchy backchat: "You don't interest me as much as I seem to interest you." Loosening a little, she began to make Freudian howlers that commonly afflict the beginner in therapy-as when, pretending to be a mailbox, she blithely announced: "I'm hoping for a lot of good long letters." But soon her antennae told her that she was not the only one out of step. All was not well in the land of touch and tell...
Gunn. In his day (1958-61), he was so cool that frost used to form on his dialogue. His wardrobe was so kempt that he had creases in his sweaters. Anyone who hired Private Eye Peter Gunn knew he was getting the real TV goods: come-what-mayhem, brisk backchat, and a solid Henry Mancini score between the commercials...
...hero, by contrast, comes off remarkably well. He is a "rich, rich writer," an "incomparable" reporter, an elephant hunter who makes Hemingway look like a boy scout, a backchat merchant who is "one of the funniest men alive," a "poontang kid" who is "really great in the sack," a friend of Toots Shor. He is, in fact, a man who has everything-including a couple of things Author Ruark wanted and never quite attained: a Pulitzer Prize and a civilized prose style...