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...keep the patter going, the President sometimes just makes up things. When he learns Social Security recipient Larry Dean sells books, the President says he's happy Laura isn't here or she'd start placing orders. After Dean perks up at the idea, the multi-millionaire President cries poor. "A little short on money these days, you know?" he says. "Government...
...with Katya, a sinister colleague. "The 2 parts per 17 million diffusion of this chemosensory signal causes Katya, whose biology serves purely Machiavellian ends, to wrinkle her nose." Sayonara Bar's wealth of convincing detail - hostess lounge décor, menus and flirtation techniques, foreign visa technicalities, drunken-salaryman patter, Yakuza personnel policy - suggests that the author has been there and, horrors, maybe even done that. In fact, Barker, born 26 years ago to an English father and a Chinese-Malay mother, did spend two years working in Osaka, though as an English teacher, not a bar girl. Then...
...After graduating from Columbia University in New York City, he moved to Chicago to be a community organizer--probably the most thankless job in activism, and that's saying something. He pleaded with people at the Altgeld Gardens public-housing project to come to meetings and listen to him patter on about community coalitions...
...telling this story, Stalter likes to punch up his patter with wireless-industry slang. When he talks about bringing wi-fi to an area, he says he's going to "paint it!" or "light it up!" But the reality isn't that dramatic. Though they sound like a secondary weapons system from the starship Enterprise, the phased-array antennas are actually large, featureless beige-and-gray nubbins that sit unassumingly next to AC units on rooftops. It's almost impossible to pick them out of the skyline, though there are six of them in downtown Spokane, along with 12 smaller...
...Warner was a studio of fast-talking actors, but most of the men either sounded straight off the sidewalks of New York City (Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien) or had acquired a well-bred British accent (the Australian Flynn, the Irish Brent). Reagan could pitch the sassy patter, but in heartland-America tones. Warner realized this and custom-made his first movie, Love Is on the Air. Playing a crusading radio host, he got to read much of his dialogue straight from the script...