Word: bantered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Baroque Speeches. The ceremonies onstage were scarcely more delicate. Gower Champion's miscued staging was reminiscent of The Ed Sullivan Show on an off night. The dancing was strictly St. Vitus, the hollow banter almost made one hunger for the elaborate thanks of yesteryear...
...already slept with his Ophelia, and in the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene he blatantly snuggles in the horizontal with her, defying Polonius to catch them in the act. Few actors can be more sexually insinuative in speech than Williamson, though in Hamlet's dirty, double-meaning banter with Ophelia ("country matters?") the voice is not that of a suitor out to shock but of a weary fornicator already tired of the flesh he has groped too often. As for the closet scene with Queen Gertrude, Williamson would have positively horrified the perhaps apocryphal British playgoer who said...
Business at Unity is done in a deliberately casual atmosphere designed to put people at ease. Rock music plays softly from loudspeakers. Bank employees banter with people who just drop in to have a neighborly chat. "We're more than a bank," says Sneed. "If we have to say no to a customer, we say, 'No. Because...
...cost of the cast. In Weekend, for example, windy politics fray some of the film's visionary power. But in Pierrot Le Fou Godard shows that he can coax fine actors into superlative performances. Belmondo earns his lunatic (fou) sobriquet; his quirky bantam strut and broken-nosed banter are only a gasp away from Breathless. Karina's sensuality gives her ultimate villainy the quality of revelation...
...have even kissed my first baby," he says wryly. Like Julie, he has developed a knack for graciously self-effacing banter. When a group of elderly Rhode Islanders recently presented him with a pair of cuff links, he grinned: "Mr. Nixon is getting a little sick of my using his cuff links all the time, so thanks very much...