Word: pattering
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Bonnie Raito's is better suited for clubs than the open air. She suffered immeasurably with the sound system, neither she or her acoustic guitars could be fully heard, and I know I missed a lot of funny patter from up front. She calls it cruisin music, but it's really all blues...
...money, but you've got a car, listen to AM radio. WRKO is the AM leader--music, patter, pimple cream and boutique ads. But they often bend the playlist a little. I heard the full version of Yes's "Roundabout" there, and just today I heard the full five and one-half minutes of Jeff Beck's "Ice Cream Cakes." These occasional album cuts are the result of a successful attempt to undercut WMEX's listernership. MEX, under new management, dropped the album cuts, and picked up the games, commercials and patter for a reason no one's been able...
...dialogue is mostly stand-up comic patter, and the movie is virtually bereft of visual humor. Herbert Ross, who was also responsible for T.R. Baskin and the musical remake of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, continues to direct as if he were dressing a window at Bloomingdale's. Everything looks terribly fussy and sterile. Play It Again, Sam badly needs the headlong energy and comic chaos that Allen worked into Take the Money and Run and, especially, Bananas, both of which he directed himself. Allen's comedy is at its best when it is loose and utterly crazy, untouched...
Close, but no cigar. For the lack of resolution of the crisis, the seemingly unhappy endings to the love lives of the minor characters are unsatisfactory theater. The play itself is too long, too complicated, and far from inspired in many spots. Even the patter song is less than amusing. In short, the whole show could use a good play doctor to tighten up both acts. The Gilbert and Sullivan style is recognizable to the point of obviousness: usually, however, Gilbert's quick with and Sullivan's facile orchestration make their operettas work. Yeomen of the Guard, like Howard Hughes...
...corner of a lip that he tries to keep permanently curled. He plays at talking tough ("A gun, a grand and a girl-that's the kind of world I move in") and cracking wise. Neville Smith adeptly furnishes Eddie with a line of second-rate patter that tries to be breezy and ends by being hollow and rather sad, much like Eddie's own nostalgic dreams of glory...