Word: banters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Strike a flirtily nude pose for a women's magazine. Have a happily public affair with a TV chanteuse 19 years your senior. Tease your screen machismo in lightning banter with Johnny Carson. Make a lot of middling pictures in fast cars. Be an early victim of AIDS rumors. Just about...
...Jordan have plenty in common. They are both sons of the South, civil rights advocates, products of the 1960s who steered to the center on their path to power, world-class storytellers who like to think of themselves as capacious spirits in the crabbed and pinched Washington scene. Their banter is sexually charged. At a White House dinner in 1995, to cite an example, Clinton found himself sitting next to a statuesque blond and at one point, according to an account in Washington Monthly, turned to Jordan and jokingly told him to keep his "hands off" the woman, because...
...then there is the luminous Driver who is shaping up to be one of the best young actresses today. Her role is underwritten, but she simply elevates herself above the script. She glows onscreen with charisma, and her sly British accent makes her banter with Will all the more entertaining. You have to wonder what Driver would do with a better-written part...
...text "O goodness me/ what misery/ how dreadful a calamity!" complemented its crazy waltz, while the singers onstage danced what was ostensibly the pachanga. Or the success of the Bat's corny "He is the goose to be cooked...watch while I baste." Even better was the faux-Gallic banter between Eisenstein and Frank, neither of whom spoke French: "affaire?" ... "Camembert!"; "du jour?" ... "I' amour...
...claim to the reverence garnered from their fans, the power must have partially come from the sounds emanating from the group's cache of analog relics and digital gadgets barricading their stage. Undoubtedly, more than just francophiles delight in Sadier's irresistible French lyrics and Marxist banter. Backed in part by Australian-born Mary Hansen, Sadier's voice wafted ethereally between the electronic imagery...