Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cutthroat swordsmanship is for the most promising "leads" (lists of hot prospects); from these come "sits" (in-person meetings with the customer) and the hallowed "closing" of the deal. This month the agency is holding a contest among its four salesmen: Roma (Joe Mantegna), the slick master of sympathetic patter; Aaronow (Mike Nussbaum), an aging nebbish trudging on the treadmill of anxiety; Moss (James Tolkan), bullet-headed and bull-tempered; and Levene (Robert Prosky), a salesman on a long losing streak, who can beam like a bishop at good news and just as quickly turn to wheedling...
...genre of the patter song, Sir Noël had no peer. Because he was a performer first, he made certain that his most complex lyrics could be delivered with ease (upon hearing Coward do Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Porter said that it was the first time he had ever heard a song delivered in one breath). Coward's broken rhythms uncannily reflect modern speech, and his rhymes are unpredictable ("The police had to send a squad car/ When Daddy got fried on vodka"). And many of his topics have actually grown more pertinent with age: "Mother requires...
...opinion; the text would be enhanced if coupled with pictures to observe. Improvements in maps or changes in ideas of the human body cannot be expressed in words along. Nevertheless, The Discoverers makes a fine night table book--not like the coffee table book holding pretty pictures for amusing patter over cocktails, but offering a rich source of new ideas for adventuresome dreams. Matthew L. Meyerson
Nevertheless, Ruddygore is eminently entertaining, filled with the usual assortment of rapid-fire patter, romantic solos, and melodramatic ditties by the choruses. Perhaps one of the least known operettas, it has an intricately woven, often convoluted plot that contains more horror and violence than standard G & S fare such as the Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore. This cast tackles the play admirably, cleverly filling the set with country dances, mystical developments, and mad cavorting by deranged characters...
...background of All the Right Moves may be gunmetal gray, but the characters and situations are as colorful as your favorite coming-of-age clichés. These teen-agers are good-looking kids with big dreams and a bright line of patter. The coach carries on like a sensitive drill sergeant, psyching his team into a football frenzy by using curses, inspirational locker-room speeches and the odd face-mask violation. Michael Chapman, who graduated to the director's chair with this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best...