Word: interlocutor
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...What's happening?" a gentleman inquires. The wet mob gazes blankly at the interlocutor. No one steps forward to respond...
That's the only way the message seems to drive home though. In every conversation I have about new records this year, my interlocutor has to bring up their adamant love for Black Star's album. What about Outkast's joint? The Source gave it five mics. "So what," they always shrug; "every hype hip-hop album in history gets three and a half mics in The Source...
...eyes darting. You could almost hear him talking--a subliminal tape--even if the words were not audible. Nixon also had the alarming habit of talking about himself in the third person, which is an inverted variation on talking to oneself. In talking to oneself, one invents an interlocutor; Nixon, speaking of himself in the third person, in effect erased an interlocutor--himself! Consider another variation: Joan of Arc. It was not so much that she talked out loud to herself as that she listened intently to the voices in her head...
...Lott's misfits are the Republican majority, and he is their natural leader. His formative experiences entwine, like honeysuckle, with those of his chief interlocutor, Bill Clinton--like Lott, an ambitious, working-class son of the South. In a capital that cares more about power than sex, theirs will be the most intriguing coupling of the next four years...
...July 1995, at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in Oklahoma, Timothy McVeigh reportedly sat down with a member of his defense team and was asked, Why didn't you bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at night, when fewer people would be killed? The prisoner looked his interlocutor in the eye and said, "That would not have gotten the point across to the government. We needed a body count to make our point...