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...whether a black man will ever be able to kiss a white woman onscreen (we won't say). All this local intelligence supports the view that people make a mess of their lives, then try to clean up by sweeping that mess under a rug of propriety, hostility or banter...
...These are the wild and wacky Hash House Harriers, part jogging group, part frat party?and self-described "drinking club with a running problem." "Hashers" trot and sprint together not just for exercise but to socialize and banter (in their own arcane jargon), and to quaff copious amounts of beer that cancel out the very health benefits they gain from running. Many people?mostly expatriates? find the mix appealing, and "hash" chapters have mushroomed in cities worldwide...
...first I was annoyed, but I eventually grew to love the way their loud, mindless, Southern-accented banter added some life to the morning bus trip, and now that they’re gone, the ride from my dorm to the subway stop is a little lonelier...
...nuclear bomb into Newark, we say. Sure it is, they’ve been improving port security ever since Sept. 11. All right, fine, well, how hard would it be for me to load a van up with fertilizer and set it off halfway across the bridge? We banter with the same armchair quarterback’s sense of authority and expertise that we later apply to more traditional questions, like “Which Major Leaguers Are On Steroids,” “What Happens In The Next Season of the Sopranos?...
...best way to catch the Hives is in concert. Pelle, who has the slender androgynous look of the young Mick Jagger, oozes star power, while Nicholaus dances like a madman and plays flawless guitar. Their stage banter is hysterical. Pelle cranks up his Swedish accent to explain to the audience why the Hives' sets are so short: "We have been told by the government of the U.S.A. that we cannot play for more than 45 minutes. It would be dangerous to the youth." After a particularly slick guitar performance, Nicholaus grabs the mike and, in full-on Swedish tourist mode...