Word: banteringly
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...meet in St. Louis for a potentially contentious town-hall meeting, where audience members will pose questions to the candidates. It could go either way: If Gore has learned anything about warmth and accessibility from his year of campaigning, he may just confound us with some quick and witty banter. But Bush, whose recent and much-trumpeted turn to issue-heavy campaigning indicates a willingness to do a whole lot of homework, could just as easily pull off a charm offensive - backed winningly with a surprising grasp of substance...
Virtual water coolers offer the online equivalent of the kind of banter that workers pick up in the office hallway or over an after-hours beer. At their best, these sites can be as salacious as a hot rumor whispered over a cubicle divider. The Velvet Rope, a music-industry insiders' site, traffics in scuttlebutt about which acts reputedly lip-synch. And as with off-line gossip, sex talk is encouraged. Vault.com recently had a series of postings about a purported call-girl and call-boy ring at a large New York City investment firm that features celebrity look-alikes...
...sold more than 550,000 units to become the most popular Dreamcast game ever. A technological breakthrough, it's the first video game ever to use voice recognition. You talk; Seaman listens. The game comes with a little microphone, so you and your virtual pet can engage in virtual banter together, with Seaman relying on its 12,000 lines of preprogrammed dialogue...
Dogs are adorable--in theory. Take one in, though, and it can shed, stray, and worse. In its first two seasons Sex became a pop-culture icon for its astute bedroom politics, for the saucy Seinfeld banter (laced with corny double entendres) of its glam foursome, but above all for recognizing that a woman can live well without being at either end of a man's leash...
...speeches. Thus last night, Sen. Jay Rockefeller had the humiliating task of carrying a handheld mike and asking health-care questions of "average Americans" onstage, who gave canned, halting responses that they seemed to be trying to read off his blinking eyelids. I've seen more convincing, spontaneous-seeming banter on juice-machine infomercials...