Word: banters
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However dehumanizing this latest brand of online social networking may appear, there are nevertheless important political implications for an online world whose five million plus citizens are looking for engaging banter, especially once the novelty of flying around and teleporting wears...
...Rudd likes the banter. He's quick-witted, knows his Simpsons lines ("I didn't do it") and a scary amount of celebrity trivia. As a control freak, Rudd knows this shtick can backfire in a flash. It's crazy-brave, but the nerdish dad seems to be titillated by these encounters. Crossing over, Rudd last week took his club act to the safer, anesthetized realm of morning television to grab the oldies. On Mornings with Kerri-Anne, Rudd spoke Mandarin, danced the rumba with his co-host, laid bricks, cooked with chocolate, dispensed marriage advice and mixed pap with...
...That, however, does not mean that mass murder is conducted entirely without feeling. For the killer, the powerlessness that came from a sense of victimization has been replaced by its perfect opposite - a heady experience that may produce an implacable serenity on the one hand, or the eerily jocular banter that surveillance tapes picked up between Harris and Klebold in Columbine on the other. Making the gunman calmer still is the fact that he has long since convinced himself that the world brought the carnage on itself. Because nobody is exempt from membership in that world, nobody's exempt from...
...dialogue of “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas” often evoked the banter between Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” full of rapid-fire exchanges and comic misunderstandings. But where Beckett took on themes like salvation and the human condition, Benjamin’s play sidestepped anything too poignant...
...out.If Smiley’s ability to render consciousness is breathtaking, her skills at creating dialogue are as well, but for the opposite reason. Smiley allows her egotistical characters to indulge in uninterrupted story recitations—open invitations to reach across the novelistic fourth wall.When Smiley attempts snappy banter, the result is badly scripted conversation. Take this scene at an outdoor pool: Max’s 23-year-old daughter reclines among a pile of towels with her father’s Hollywood agent, a man twice her age. She touches his erection.“She said...