Word: banteringly
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...with his wife and children. From the reader's point of view, this is a good thing. A domesticated DelCorso, brooding about integrity, mortgage payments and marriage, proves to be unbearable. Abroad, he is the subject of an oldfashioned, manly novel, crisply written with plenty of locker-room banter and bang-bang. -By R.Z. Sheppard
...backstage banter about a romantic reconciliation and all the coy onstage asides were but means of bloating the box office of their ponderous Broadway revival of Noël Coward's comedy Private Lives. Mercifully, it seems that Richard Burton, 57, and Elizabeth Taylor, 51, may never replay their headline-grabbing love affair again. For last week, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas (what could be more romantic?), Burton wed his companion of the past 18 months, Sally Hay, 35. It was Burton's fifth reading of the wedding vows. (Past partners: Sybil Williams, Taylor, Taylor again...
Clever, those television programmers. In the late 1970s they were among the last to discover that news is not just news, it is also (Lights! Cameras! Banter!) entertainment. So if news can be entertainment, why not turn entertainment into news? Presto, Entertainment Tonight was born: news in form, entertainment in content, a TV hybrid. There may be no business like show business, but there's good business in show-business news...
Some would say he could not. Though he has enough of the Marine fly-boy banter in him to mix easily with crowds, he is too prim about his public conduct to be the least bit theatrical. Glenn is a wooden speaker. But he has polished up his basic themes in the past six months and has somewhat improved his platform skills. Last month in Bangor, Me., the political loner seemed more comfortable with the stump ritual of holding out his arms and asking a group of local Democrats to please give him a hand...
...burned toast and reviewing comedies like this. Nowadays, when the shows that used to be off-Broadway are on the main stem, and Broadway shows are running in the little houses, things like this open less glitzily. But the formula is as ever: one set, six characters, some brisk banter and a simple conflict in values bobbing along the sparkly surface...