Word: bantering
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...hours, the flight was flawless. Streaking through space at 17,157 m.p.h.. Air Force Major Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. ate, slept, exchanged banter with ground-bound fellow astronauts, coolly conducted scientific experiments. But now there was trouble. Just as Cooper prepared for the searing plunge through the earth's atmosphere, his autopilot system went...
...sung by Pelagia and the monk Nonnus, her father, maintain a sickly melancholy which seems quite inappropriate to her sins, the supposed point of it all. At the same time, when she appears, surrounded by suitors, it is always to the same cheery dance tune which first accompanied the banter of the two monks. Because Perera's popular melodies and Cole's humor fail to guide the opera's ideas and dramatic progression (as such devices do well in West Side Story), the product...
Most of Safari is brittle, sharp banter between four debauchees in their twenties who, in various Combinations want to seduce each other and corrupt an already confused undergraduate named Achilles (John Kemp). Gentry Sanger, our host for the evening, is a notorious faggot who "oozes into Widener" to pick up new boyfriends. Paul Schmidt plays him with reptilian smoothness. He wriggles and postures and drawls through airy marvels of sinister affectation. He is the devil in drag. His counterpart Ann Timmons (Joanna Vogel) coldly pursues men. She snatches up innocent victims like Achilles, inflames them and casts them...
There was also a touch of sentiment in Macmillan's journey to Stockton: it was there that young Captain Macmillan won his first seat in the House of Commons in 1924. Hatless in the chilly rain, Macmillan now roamed Stockton's streets, delightedly shaking hands and exchanging banter with tradespeople and old acquaintances. In his wake was the personable local Tory candidate, Barrister Gerald Coles, 28; he did not hope to win, for Stockton had been a safe Labor seat since 1945. What Coles, and Macmillan, hoped to achieve was at least a decisive second place over...
After Mantle had made his deal with the Yankees, Roger Maris slipped quietly into Hamey's office for some business banter of his own. Maris, who signed his first Yankee contract two years ago for $18,000, demanded $75,000 for 1962. When Hamey suggested that $55,000 ought to pay the taxes on Roger's offseason earnings Maris decided to go back home to Ray town, Mo. and mull the whole matter over...