Word: banter
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...culminates in an assasination attempt on Napoleon's life, a tiresome case of mistaken identities is thrown in, and Boris finally trails off behind the Angel of Death in a flap-happy parody of The Seventh Seal. Where Allen shines is not in slapstick situations but in soliloquies and banter duets. He and Sonia (Diane Keaton), an intellectual Russian nymph, often find themselves grappling with...
...matter getting any meaningful information from them." Actually, reporters have had an easier time questioning P.R.G. leaders than they had quizzing officials of the Thieu regime. General Tran Van Tra, head of the military administration for Saigon, has held several press conferences; recently Chairman Nguyen Huu Tho skillfully exchanged banter with journalists at a victory ball in Thieu's old Independence Palace...
...bartender who never forgets a customer's face or drink; a feisty, evil-tempered whore; a sweet, naive Southern girl, who came to the North to find a slightly better life; the malevolent hustler; the rising young black attorney. They are all charming characters, given to relaxed and easy banter that flows rapidly and naturally, but they all perch precariously on a tenuous line between reality and sit-com land...
This monotonous effect is nowhere more apparent than in the constant banter about sex. In the crime novels sex talk is crude but excited. Attitudes toward sex reveal much about motivations. In A City on a Hill there is more talk, less feeling. The talk is almost exotic--about fat Tijuana whores and Chinese baskets and a house in Brighton where you wash off with PhisoHex to stave off V.D. The sex that actually happens (we hear about it through more talk) is uniform, innocuous. No one is tender, no one is embarrassed to talk about how wet somebody...
...President engaged in none of the usual joshing banter with reporters, either before or after the speech. After he left the office, he told a staff member...