Word: banteringly
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...anonymous sailors of Stars & Stripes, well-educated men slaving for $75 a week, have a telling phrase for what they do. They speak of their "commitment to the commitment." During the races few words are ever necessary, and those are gently spoken. But in practice runs the banter is uncommonly happy. "What do you think, campers?" says Conner, who never seems to command, only question. "Will anybody be heartbroken if we change this sail? Shall we put up Dolly?" Perhaps a revolutionary and certainly a ! provocative new spinnaker -- featuring rows of billowing bulges -- is on loan from the N.Y.Y.C...
...from its morning competitors -- Today and ABC's Good Morning, America -- The Morning Program has come up with something to embarrass everyone. Smith, a straitlaced former anchorman for New York City's WCBS-TV, and Actress Hartley, who once filled in as a Today co-host, engage in strained banter on an elaborately homey set. The show's regular features include personal ads, in which singles promote themselves via 30-second video clips, comedy routines that, good or bad, do not go down easily at 7:55 a.m., and Hartley's dog Daisy, which gets petted...
...Roth. The author and the actress are, in some ways, an odd match; she needs people, other actors, crews, audiences for her work just as much as he requires isolation for his. So when Bloom is in rural Connecticut, her enforced idleness leads to a good deal of teasing banter. He: "There is no social life around here." She (to a visitor): "That's what he keeps telling me." He: "Nobody goes to parties. Hey, I got you a telephone, didn...
...Monday Buchanan attended the President's weekly policy lunch. Usually Buchanan tries to get there early so he can grab the seat right across from Reagan, the better to exchange some banter and eye contact. But this time he was late and had to sit at the end. "I wasn't happy about that because I wanted to get his reaction." The article did not come up, but Reagan showed he was in tune with the hard-nosed approach. He claimed that he was personally responsible for breaking the news of the secret dealings, quipping, "I ought...
...mother and daughter are flat characters partly because they are not given voices. The Enchanter lacks the squabbles and banter which pepper the pages of Lolita. While the child in The Enchanter remains for the most part mute, Lolita utters vulgar taunts and slangy witticisms. She knows that she is a "bad, bad girl. Juvenile delickwent, but frank and fetching...