Word: banter
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...Hardin, this meet was a big morale booster. Last Saturday, he ran in sweat pants and had to labor for a fourth, but yesterday he looked loose throughout the race and very happy afterwards as he exchanged banter with Shaw...
...Observatory and the Air Force's longtime consultant on UFOs, wrote a significant letter to Science. (Had he spoken out earlier, Hynek says, "I would have been regarded as a nut.") In the letter, he took his fellow scientists to task for dismissing UFOs with "buffoonery and caustic banter" and rejecting the possibility that saucers are extraterrestrial. "As long as there are 'unidentifieds,' " he wrote, "the question must obviously remain open...
...long and happy life is its language. Christpoher Fry has a Chinanman's fascination for high-meaning word plays, mixed with an Irishman's compulsive wit. He cannot bear to write a line, for even the lowliest of characters, which is not pure honey. The flow of mellifluous banter carries the play along, and on it floats truth after home truth. Few writers and fewer playwrights can mix colloquial expressions with genuine poetry as smoothly as can Christophesr Fry. It is natural that he should use an unabashedly romantic, medieval background to make his verse look at home...
...autocratic country. But from what the two Spaniards here say, it simply cannot be that sort of place." Such understanding is roughly what Héreil had in mind all along. "We want to make business more human," he says. At mellow Mercués, with its convivial banter and fireside chats, Héreil figures he has made a good start in that direction...
...that grim. Shelagh Delaney brings everybody on and off-stage to music. She cuts out hunks of time -- scenes glid into each other instead of stumbling along in supra-realistic connection. The characters are an articulate crew; they put each other down without stuttering. Their bitchy banter is as satisfying as a good dogfight...