Word: bantering
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...less than 24 hours, polling booths will be open, ballots will be marked and the dwindling numbers of ambivalent voters will have to choose. We are bombarded with information, political banter and statistics (some more true than others) from various media outlets, all intended to help us make a choice. As undecided voters weigh the nuances of the platforms trying to pick between President Bush and Senator Kerry, a new and important feature comes into play: the endorsements...
...film is as difficult to watch as a Chem 17 lecture the night before midterms. Scientific hypothesizing and experimentation fill the arduous first 30 minutes of the film, while poorly delivered banter between friends growing progressively more suspicious of one another fill the next half hour. The grand climax of the dizzying film is a fast-paced non-linear sequence of frames and voiceover trying to explain what has just bored the audience for the past hour...
Before the curtain goes up at any concert venue around the country, the headlining act must engage in some backstage banter with local DJs, the children of corporate sponsors and whomever the Teamsters want to impress. The music industry calls this compulsory session the meet and greet, and because the spontaneity is scheduled and the patronage barely disguised, it is often the grimmest 15 minutes of any touring musician's day. But Tim McGraw loves it. He has his road crew set up a tent with a tiny stage and shabby-chic furniture. He keeps everyone plied with Bud Light...
...will be equipped with knowledge because I will give it to you. Here is the rundown of the four biggest issues in the Bubble at the tail-end of last year and enough background to carry you through the most demanding Annenberg banter...
It’s just that I think many people here have two faces. Behind the joking about visas and good spirited banter in broken Arabic, I detect envy and little hope for the future. The manager at a pizza shop I frequent bemoans his abundance of education (a masters degree) as worthless, considering he makes $500 per month and still can’t get a British, Canadian or American visa. The guy at the crepe place is saving up his money to try to bribe a poor American girl into marrying him for six months...