Word: banteringly
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...modern passionlessness. Reduced to simple headlines, Purdy's book is a precocious diatribe against the sort of media-savvy detachment that passes for intelligence and maturity in the age of Letter- man. "The ironic individual," he writes, "is a bit like Seinfeld without a script; at ease in banter, versed in allusion, and almost debilitatingly self-aware." In Purdy's opinion, the price of such crippling cleverness is social stagnation and private emptiness. Ironists waste time smirking rather than working--working to build a better world, that is. And Purdy, an unapologetic progressive, believes in a better world. Sincerely. Earnestly...
...plays. "I was going to be Neil Simon, batting out one Broadway show after another." Then he joined the Chicago Tribune as a reviewer-columnist. One night he met the young Midler and said, "You're very funny. You should talk more onstage." He began honing Midler's concert banter. One gig led to another, and voila, a playwright was lost, a quick-draw comic artist born...
...than any other agent. I also liked how the very attractive receptionist asked if I'd like to be validated. I told her I thought I already was and threw in the word "baby." She said she meant my parking. I figured if I came back, the Moonlighting-esque banter might continue...
NAME: David ("Don't Call Me Jack") Cassidy OCCUPATION: Onetime pop idol BEST PUNCH: Produced a homage to the Rat Pack at Vegas' Desert Inn in which actors croon, banter and re-create, in the words of the show's publicity material, the "swingin'est of eras...
...Urkel) and buddies are--like much of the demo-targeted population of sitcom America--adjusting to postcollegiate life as urbane young men and women, though the only real evidence of this is that they drink wine, smoke cigars and talk on cell phones. Their gay-and-lesbian-obsessed sex banter is still firmly stuck in high school...