Word: bantering
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...film. The Chevalier home is a place of hard-working servants, white tablecloths, and wine-filled crystal; original paintings are on the walls, the Tour de France on the radio, and Maurice Chevalier on T.V. Laurent's older brothers amuse themselves through slapstick fights with the servants, light banter with their father over the Indochina War, and posing adolescent playboys...
Apparently no formal agreement of the sort that Soviet Party Leader Brezhnev pushed for in Paris was sought in Havana; none was needed, given Cuba's heavy dependence on Moscow's aid and favor. U.S. eavesdroppers, however, were puzzled by one bit of banter monitored over Havana radio. Visiting a state factory near Havana, Kosygin demurred at Castro's invitation to speak. "Please say a few words," pleaded Castro. Kosygin's nyet finally turned into a very grudging da. "Comrades," he told the crowd through an interpreter, "you see how your Premier gets...
...whom Jimmy Porter savaged so mercilessly as the detritus of a doomed civilization in Osborne's first play, Look Back in Anger (1956). But now Osborne, who has shifted to the right in recent years, finds much to mourn in that civilization's passing. The bright, bitchy banter of the sisters-one notably played by Jill Ben nett (Mrs. John Osborne)-is pierced by nostalgia when the old writer reminisces about damp England, colonial days, his own youth when he never really felt young. The latter-day equivalent of Jimmy Porter, a visiting American hippie, can only splutter...
...Senate, New York's liberal Republican Jacob Javits and the state's incoming Conservative James Buckley exchanged friendly banter, even though Javits had just challenged Buckley's right to join the Republican caucus. After he was sworn in, California Democrat John Tunney smilingly grasped the hand of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who had personally fought his election. A bipartisan ovation greeted the return of Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, whose eternal ebullience is still enjoyed by his longtime colleagues. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, deposed from his job as majority whip only minutes before in a stunning upset, quietly beckoned...
Given a rather earthbound production by England's Nottingham Playhouse company, A Yard of Sun still rises to Fry's characteristic pitch, which might be described as cheeky-cosmic. The simplest of his characters can spin out rococo banter about the universe, God and the meaning of life. The setting is a courtyard in Siena, Italy, in 1946. The occasion is the reunion of four men back from the war-a refugee from a concentration camp, a doctor who was a partisan guerrilla, a would-be politician who joined the fascists, and a black marketeer who made...