Word: bantering
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Exploring the entirety of this enormous market would take hours, but you will quickly home in on traditional Latvian delights like fragrant rye bread and piragi, a baked roll filled with bacon. In the meat pavilion, beef-carvers exchange banter while elsewhere honey vendors capitalize on Latvia's rich history of beekeeping. They actively court passersby with samples drawn, for instance, from buckwheat blossoms...
...People like Vicky and her friends represent the leading edge, the trailblazers for a huge mass of young, eagerly aspirant consumers. All over China, young professionals like these banter about blogging, travel and work-life balance. ("Work hard, play harder," says Vicky several times, repeating it in case she isn't heard.) If they can't afford to blow $700 on skiing gear, they want to be able to soon...
...that, in the burliest genres, men's roles are being feminized. Peter Parker may be affianced to M.J., but their love seems pretty shallow and perfunctory. His most intense relationship is with Harry, his friend and surrogate brother - someone to try to talk sense to, to banter and battle with, to caress lovingly when he's hurt...
However dehumanizing this latest brand of online social networking may appear, there are nevertheless important political implications for an online world whose five million plus citizens are looking for engaging banter, especially once the novelty of flying around and teleporting wears...
...That, however, does not mean that mass murder is conducted entirely without feeling. For the killer, the powerlessness that came from a sense of victimization has been replaced by its perfect opposite - a heady experience that may produce an implacable serenity on the one hand, or the eerily jocular banter that surveillance tapes picked up between Harris and Klebold in Columbine on the other. Making the gunman calmer still is the fact that he has long since convinced himself that the world brought the carnage on itself. Because nobody is exempt from membership in that world, nobody's exempt from...