Word: banter
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UNDERRATED Kelly Ripa with Regis Philbin. Kathie Lee's successor matches the 800-lb. gorilla of TV hosts perfectly, balancing silly banter with an arsenal of pungent one-liners and poker-faced comebacks. A Condit interview next...
...writer Terry Zwigoff (who last did "Crumb," about the underground comix master) turns the focus of the movie more on Enid and her emerging relationship with Seymour rather than the girls' friendship. The book enjoys its reputation primarily for the uncanny naturalness and intimacy of the two girls' banter as they constantly affirm each other with "I know," or refer to each other's past history with questions like "Isn't that the thing David Lipton gave you in the fifth grade?" Much of the book's dialogue has been transferred verbatim but the movie turns the dissolution of this...
...have to admit, though, some things about Fenway are growing on me. The bleacher fans are always in good spirits (especially when a Yankee fan gets tossed for bad behavior), and I am starting to appreciate the drunken banter (and ass-grabbing) on the crowded subway ride back to Park Street...
Bush has discussed Putin with world leaders ranging from Britain's Tony Blair to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And he's been briefed by CIA experts on the way the former KGB officer charms foreign leaders in meetings such as this. Putin will be ready to banter on everything from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty to Bush's love of baseball. He may even make some private small talk in English in an attempt to ease the tension of their first meeting. In that sense, at least, the Russian is a bit like Bush...
Michael Dertouzos, director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science, believes computers should adopt human-like qualities. They should understand our banter, joke with us, read us e-mails and, if an experiment under way in Hong Kong is any example, do a whole lot more. One2Free, a cellular service run by telecoms firm PCCW, has created a game world populated by four virtual girls: Alice, Angel, Ron and Veron. It's kind of a Tamogotchi for the home-alone-on-a-Friday-night crowd: through the cell phone, you sweet-talk the cybervixens into dates or out of their...