Word: banter
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...good sense of humor and enjoys banter,” Adams House Master Sean D. Palfrey says. “He’s very in tune with people, partly because he listens...
...casually among a team of Chinese producers in the control room critiquing the show. "I thought maybe I was a dope to go for two anchors," Terenzio observes, "but I wanted to build a bit of chemistry." When news presenters Chris Gelken and Jacqueline Chan abandon their scripts to banter amiably about the stock market, he's pleased that the chemistry appears to be working. "This," he says, "is really good television...
Back at Gilly's the soldiers are outraged that so far only low-level troops have been collared for the prison abuses. The banter turns to what kind of behavior is acceptable in war. One Vietnam vet at the bar recalls atrocities: "I knew guys in Vietnam with dried ears and penises hanging from their dog tags," he says. "What these guys did in Iraq was bad, and they ought to burn for it, but it's not the worst thing we've done...
...going to have to go through that and find a way to clean up my language too.” When questioned about the deleted passages, Rumsfeld got meta-ridiculous, trying to cover up the cover-up by dismissing the deleted passages as “some banter.” Apparently, when you’re the defense secretary, your conversations are so important that admitting that you shared secret war plans that you claim never to have finalized with a Saudi Prince before you told your own Secretary of State constitutes “banter...
Still, the Sys worry that in bringing in outside managers, something important might get lost. The collegial atmosphere they have created can't be found in any ordinary boardroom. At a business lunch in Manila, members of the family, each striving to talk over another, banter happily about malls, politics, their kids. When Sy declares, "I've never had an inferiority complex," Henry Jr., the eldest son, quips, "only shopping complexes." The family bursts into gales of laughter. The trick will be preserving what Tessie calls a "continuity of culture," preserving that family spirit even as the Sys' role diminishes...