Word: banters
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...between the car chases and gunplay, Chan lays in plenty of the good-natured banter and macho high jinks that are standard issue in buddy-cop pictures from Hong Kong to Hollywood. At one point, Ekin Cheng banishes a junior officer to the inside of a huge fish tank, where the underling must count the number and variety of each fish?while wearing only underwear...
Once there was lots more going on. In the '30s and '40s, when everyone (not just dateless teen boys) went to films, the sexes were equal onscreen. Men and women used to swap banter, fall in love, solve dilemmas together, share top billing. And women could anchor hits, big ones. Gone With the Wind, depicting a Southern belle's struggles and whims, was Hollywood's top grosser for 26 years--until another women's film, The Sound of Music, matched it. Even the current "all time" champ, Titanic, is at heart a shipboard love story. Yet Hollywood is reluctant...
Amidst the loud banter in the room, Kabala relates the nature of their relationship with an anecdote. “My favorite war story. Chris Matthews went up to Reagan and said, ‘Mr. President, this is where we plot against you,’ and Reagan said, ‘Okay, but after six, we’re friends.’ These guys may have been at a sit-in while I was dropping Salients off at Massachusetts Hall, but after six, we’re friends...
...this game because we’re an irreputable media outfit, Summers quickly said that I’d probably get honors even if we lost. I said “We’ll see about that, ha,” a goddamn ace compared to my earlier banter...
...legislation leaving Congress is the product of political banter, not sound medical judgement. This ban is particularly troublesome because it criminalizes the reliable method when a woman’s health is of greatest concern. Women seeking abortions deserve access to the safest medical procedure available—the appropriate choice of treatment should be a decision that rests with a woman and her doctor, not with Congress...