Word: pattered
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...costumes were soon fit for a king -- King Frederick of Hollywood -- with their exotic plumes and freighted trains. He wore diamonds as big as the Ritz; his hair was not so much teased as taunted; his candelabra were large enough to light the Library of Congress reading room. The patter between numbers became bolder, dropping innuendos like anvils...
...real crowd-pleaser is Spike Lee himself as Mars Blackmon, the supersonic-mouthed, puny-limbed biker who 10-speeds directly into the camera at his first entrance. With big aviator frames, high tops, and an imposing, gold-plated "MARS" necklace, his mere presence inspires laughter. And his street-patter has proved to be contagious: Mars' stacatto delivery of "please, baby, please, baby, please, baby, baby-baby, please" is mimicked all over town. Some movie mavens have dubbed Lee the new Woody Allen and it's true--he saves all the best jokes for himself. But sweet, street-smart, and boastful...
...toward buying 326 acres and the Hill home. He hopes to raise $100,000 more to save the rest of the farm. Before the New York builder called to offer Hill's widow his help, she had never heard of him. Nevertheless, she said, "My heart went pitter-patter." Said Trump: "I wanted to help one lady with one farm. The bigger problem is that thousands and thousands of people are going through the same thing...
...that voice, "the Voice of Cape Ann," is flat and without timbre. His admirers describe it as a deadly monotone or compare it with Elmer Fudd talking with a mouthful of marbles. His patter is often punctuated by dead air and occasionally interrupted by some terse remark like "The peas are burning...
...Geller's eventual demise need not produce such a dire result. The truth is that, by now, much of his daily broadcast is canned. He has recorded more than 400 hours of programming, and he broadcasts these tapes in a cycle that is repeated every few months. The deadpan patter is there, and so is the music, the voice of angels, Geller's own secret voice. It is a thought that must give the people over at Grandbanke the willies: WVCA-Geller could go on like this -- forever...