Word: bantering
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...crucial fault line of America," crafting an absorbing theater piece of characters, from undergraduates at Princeton to probation officers in South Central Los Angeles. In one scene, a white waitress in Alabama jabs at a former school principal, a black man, for having suspended her 20 years earlier. The banter is lighthearted, but Shipler perceives more. "How galling...to feel helpless before a black man in authority," he writes. "How vividly the echoes of resentment reverberate into the present...
...troupe of self-described "environmental experts and old farts" are at their regular table at Skaets Steak Shop, the tiny cafe where they meet at the beginning of each day for breakfast and banter. The coming of spring has brought to the table a new topic to replace, for a moment, the wheat and the weather: the fate of a colony of prairie dogs that has taken up residence in the Kansas State Fairgrounds, right where the town of Hutchinson intends to build a couple of new baseball fields...
...play very clearly comes from a longer prose work. Weinstein and Yee seem to have tried to strike a balance between dramatizing character development and bringing concrete action to the stage, but the latter often works better than the former. Blocks of monologue, rather than quick banter or fast-moving action, mark the development of the story. One character frequently delivers a revelation or reminiscence to another in a single, unbroken block of text. This can make for unusually slow theatrical pacing...
...characters seem to be speaking not only to each other, but to an audience who can sympathize with their confused plight. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are always waiting for someone important--Hamlet, Claudius, or Polonius--to tell them what to do. In the meantime, their playful banter gives audience members much to think and laugh about while waiting for something to happen...
...students, at fault for disrespecting the council because we just don't understand it? Or are the accomplishments of the council drowned out by the visibly masturbatory crap we dislike: tactical campaigning, self-important banter and fruitless legislation...