Word: banteringly
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...kind of banter that only the most verkrampte, or hard-line, Afrikaner would find amusing. But when Andries Treurnicht and Jaap Marais, the leaders of two of South Africa's right-wing political parties, shared a platform in Pretoria earlier this year to protest the government's repeal of laws banning interracial sex and marriage, their racist exchanges produced waves of laughter from the conservative audience...
DIED. JAY MARSHALL, 85, magician-ventriloquist dubbed the Dean of Magic by the Society of American Magicians; in Chicago. An opening act for performers from Frank Sinatra to Milton Berle and a frequent guest on the Ed Sullivan Show, he would banter with his brash puppet, Lefty, and perform signature tricks like the Jaspernese Thumb Tie, in which his crossed thumbs, securely interlocked, penetrated spectators' legs, chairs and other objects...
...causes a fifty-foot-wide imprint of his hand to crush his opponent, it’s difficult to take the movie seriously. Also, the fights are often slow and quiet, which throw off the American tendency to associate balls-to-the-wall action with lightspeed moves and witty banter...
Life in the prehistoric era, as Marilyn French tells it, was apparently much like that in a modern Scout camp. Early humans fished and frolicked, lived off the land and sat around communal fires at night talking, singing and indulging in sexual banter. Life was generally not hard, she says, and peace reigned between the sexes and between humans and nature. This idyllic era, a source of some nostalgia for the author, fell victim to the most decisive and perfidious event in history: the rise of patriarchy...
...motives behind the backstage banter aren't unmixed: the directors are giving fans what they want, and they're also engaging in subtle, studio-sanctioned advance marketing. (The suits at Warner and Universal vet every entry.) "There's really no downside to having these websites. It can only help the box office," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of Exhibitor Relations, which tracks box-office trends. "You're building the want-to-see factor that you have to have for a good opening weekend...