Word: bantered
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...phrase "baba au rhum" with his trademark "bu-bu-bu-bu-bum." When Sinatra sing-snarls, "Don't dig that kind a croonin', chum," Crosby speaks his response with a withering vagueness, "You must be one of the newer fellas." The Crosby-Sinatra animosity is, of course, all banter - the Hope-Crosby rivalry set to bubbly music - and exquisitely realized...
...plan assumes that all press is good press, and that companies will pay to have their name attached to a prank that's absurd enough to make the evening news and water-cooler banter the next morning...
...despite their fatigue, officers banter with protesters and supporters and as the protest goes on, police are befriending many participants they see every day inside and outside the building...
...boys try to capitalize on their personalities by walking out, one at a time, to graciously receive the screams of a thousand girls. The music is a mere afterthought, scattered throughout the self-congratulatory banter, but the high-energy “Every Six Seconds” at the very end shows that at least they can pull off a quality dance tune. “All or Nothing,” their second single, has some decent (non-lipsynched) singing, but the inane repetition of “Giiiirrrrrlllll,” with Jacob moonwalking, earns no points...
...worse, this thoroughly unoriginal concept was also, like “Millionaire,” to be imported straight from Britain without even the slightest tinkering. And to play it as safe as humanly possible, the producers imported the host straight from the Brits too—no friendly banter with the host, no sympathetic encouragement from cuddly Reege, not even a trace of the good old American dream. This time it was all about authenticity—if we were going to get “The Weakest Link,” we were going to get every last...