Word: banter
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Singer's dialogue is a reminder that once conversation meant more than banter on a TV talk show, that ideas were once as tangible and as nourishing as potatoes. That time is ended, and the people Singer celebrates were wiped out or dispersed. Yet they live. Several times Aaron toys with the notion that time is a book in which the dead exist on pages sim ply not legible to the living. Singer's books reverse this concept: they are time, lovingly preserved and animated by laughter and wisdom...
...sailors' response was intended to reflect China's priorities in foreign affairs these days, and it typified the tone of Brzezinski's three-day visit to Peking. Filled with good will and banter, the talks nevertheless carried a strong and serious anti-Soviet message. Brzezinski tried to keep this theme from raising Soviet anxieties too high, but he did not mind lifting them a little. "I do not want to suggest that there was congruity or the shaping of some sort of alliance," he carefully explained after his return to Washington. "But there was a recognition...
...soft-soaping those equine characters. He generally wins their confidence and learns all their troubles. I do not say that they up and tell him, understand. No, I do not say that, because it is something I cannot prove, inasmuch as Hirsch Jacobs himself denies there is any open banter between him and horses. But if they do not tell him, who does?" Runyon had good reason to wonder where his longtime friend got his tips. In 43 years as a breeder and trainer, Jacobs saddled 3,569 winners and collected more than $12 million in purses...
...doing housework--they do all of their own cooking and cleaning. They also play a lot of ping-pong (a good game for the firehouse because it is easily interrupted), watch television or just sit around the kitchen table drinking coffee and engaging in endless streams of locker-room banter...
...entrenched in technical precision. The actors must savor Shaffer's dialogue, sputter and sing it in every conceivable register, deliver it with an awareness so heightened that the words become daggers. In the Leverett House production they do not; the dialogue is rattled off racehorse-style, reduced to snippy banter that makes Anthony Shaffer sound like a British Neil Simon...