Word: banter
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...laughs hearty enough to fill Broadway's biggest house. But around the surefire comic bits, Hands continues to deploy the human opposites only art can reconcile. By the end of the evening a friar can dance with a wench, and the dead come back to life, and lovers banter until they fall into each other's arms at dawn...
...when the then Governor of California was introduced to Soviet officials accompanying Leonid Brezhnev on a visit to President Nixon in San Clemente.* Reagan and Gromyko encountered each other again during the "mix and mingle" portion of the reception, and the Soviet leader indulged in some skeptical banter. Referring to Reagan's forthcoming speech to the U.N., Gromyko asked the President, in English, "How many arrows will you shoot at me tomorrow?" Reagan smilingly answered that he had no arrows in his quiver. Gromyko pressed on: "Twenty arrows? Ten?" Reagan let Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., reply...
...pedestrians. The runners, most of them Western diplomats, called themselves the Hash House Harriers, after a group founded by three fleet-footed Britons in Kuala Lumpur some 50 years ago. Following a run of 2½ to five miles, participants of the Moscow ritual would engage in beer and banter at a Western embassy...
...Stone) and Darlene (Laurie Metcalf), a couple too amiable or dense to survive the Nighttown scene till morning. "They every one of them steal," one denizen grumbles, and steal they do: money, drugs, a cup of coffee, a shred of strutting self-respect, another minute of free-for-all banter before collapsing in sleep or death...
...reporters climbed into two long dugouts with outboard motors and chugged up the river for two hours, until they reached a two-story wooden building. Ushered to the second floor of Pastora's headquarters, the journalists found the guerrilla commander at a narrow table. After some cheerful banter, the questioning began. Suddenly, in the middle of a response, a bomb exploded in a white-hot flash. "It was a human whirlwind," said José Antonio Venegas, a photographer for La Nation, a Costa Rican newspaper. "Blood splashed against the walls, people flew through the windows. Someone screamed, 'Save...