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...Bacharach!) or Unchained Melody, but she's exceedingly clean and emotional. She's also very much herself. Lauper performs Makin' Whoopee with a Teutonic exhaustion worthy of Madeline Kahn. It's a great, funny interpretation made even better when, halfway through, Tony Bennett shows up for a little banter. Lauper isn't redefined by At Last - she'll forever just want to have fun - but Bennett comes off great. That son of his is a genius...
...pages in late, hastily mumbling totally ridiculous and implausible excuses. One of the lucky things about finishing the magazine in the early hours of the morning is that we get to chat regularly with Byrne and Dioguardi, who are always impossibly friendly and ready for self (or FM-)deprecating banter at any hour of the morning. Not everyone makes it to The Crimson’s basement press room...
Frequently laughing that their lives revolve around eating, the three seniors embrace their far-from-sleek physiques and all else that comes with being an offensive lineman. They keep up non-stop banter as they attempt to explain the “O-line mentality” in terms of food and their softer side, and in doing so, they feed off each other as much as the massive amounts of food they...
...banter of yesterday’s meeting, wasn’t all antagonistic...
Love is a short novel (though the flap copy reminds us, a trifle touchily, that it's still "major") with a snazzy mystery plot, some energetic sex and flashes of witty banter. ("If this wasn't hell," Christine says of her living arrangements, "it was the lobby.") But why isn't it more fun? Partly because Morrison is so interested in the play of memory and time and point of view that readers have to do a lot of homework just to figure out what's going on. Partly because, like so many master portraitists, Morrison is drawn to ugly...