Word: patter
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...soldiers died in World War I; it's quite another to be struck by the question British poet Wilfred Owen raised in his Anthem for Doomed Young: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/Only the monstrous anger of the guns./Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons." But Owen never learned that he had penned some of the most celebrated verse to come out of World War I: he was killed in action on the Western Front a week before the Armistice. A similar fate met Alan Seeger, an American who joined...
...This is a great change for me," said a Regis-less KATHIE LEE GIFFORD, subbing last week for David Letterman. "I get to sit in for a cranky overpaid prima donna instead of sitting next to one." But seriously. Gifford's patter was interrupted by a lingerie-throwing heckler who instructed the free-and-easy Gifford to "put on a bra!" She did, retorting, "Put on a jockstrap...
...writing movies. Imperioli gave Chase a script on spec last season for the chance to write in "a writer's medium, rather than a director's... I felt like such a part of this world, writing for actors I knew." The team shares a gift for the fluid patter of Northeastern Italian Americans (like Chase, ancestral name DeCesare); Edie Falco, who won an Emmy as Tony's steely wife Carmela, says that on other projects, "I instinctively start rewriting my lines--which I'm sure writers hate...[But] I have never, ever had to second-guess with The Sopranos...