Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign to convince the world that Russia is out to ease international tensions, Nikita Khrushchev has displayed the sure timing of an expert con man and the insinuating patter of a carnival barker. Last week, in a single act of savagery, Khrushchev threw away the diplomatic fruits of all this patience and skill...
...sorcerer himself receives a magnificent interpretation from Benjamin Nielson. His singing, costume and makeup suit the role perfectly and with his acting there can be no cavil. His rapid-fire patter song is a genuine show-stopper. As his page, nine-year-old Nicky Deutsch is charming...
Pull Up Some Wood. Amid his bouncing and shuffling teenagers, ex-Harmonica Player Clark is right at home. Personable and polite, he manages to sound as if he really means such glib disk-jockey patter as, "Let me pull up a hunk of wood and sit down with you." This air of sincerity is Clark's biggest attraction. Though ABC has mailed out 300.000 of his photographs since last summer, boyishly handsome Clark believes that most teen-agers see him less as a romantic idol than as the ideal big brother who understands their problems. On the problem...
...Drum Patter: one who feels drums, containing unstable propellants, for signs of heat...
...narrow, smoky room, on a stage not quite wide enough for the show's five performers to buck without winging each other, the cast, backed by two pianos, lines out patter songs, monologues, ballads and production numbers (everyone onstage at once). The revue keeps up a two-beat pace with fast blackouts. Most lyrics are aimed at Manhattan's theater set and suburbia's bar-car sophisticates, but they are not necessarily too esoteric for the occasional Sixth Avenue Sindbad who "falls downstairs looking for the subway." Sample...