Word: patters
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...seems to know that. Taking the stage in an OutKast T shirt, he performed a career-spanning set that didn't try to compete. He played his hits, jumped around like a pixie and worked up a serious sweat. And when it came time for some obligatory rock-star patter, he offered up anything but. "I really do hope that everyone is having a nice time." Not exactly "Hello, Cleveland," but, like Area: One itself, it was Moby at his most sincere...
...maybe that was Jocko's WDAS colleague, Georgie Woods, the Man With the Goods (who lived about three blocks from me). But it sounded fresh and seductive to this kid. An evening with Jocko was like an all-night jam session: the records were the familiar choruses, and his patter was the inspired improv...
...according to the label, by Douglas Henderson). If Jocko was baritone, Hy Lit was a nervous tenor. A would-be-pro baseball player from the University of Miami, he called his listeners "babycakes" and himself "Hyski O'Rooney McVoughtie O'Zoot." (Why oh why is Lit's peripatetic paradiddle patter embedded in my pre-teen muscle memory, especially considering that the rest of my musculature has amnesia?) Hy moved down the dial from WHAT 1340 to WIBG 990, when that station acquired a 50,000-watt transmitter and a new pop-rock sound...
...Compare Bush-Cheney with Clinton-Gore. With the Democratic boomers, we had archetypes of new men. Clinton was a classic. A believer in feminism because it gave him greater opportunities to meet women and have sex, Clinton knew how to disguise his roguish heart with a new man's patter. He talked the talk on women's rights, gave his wife an unelected office and backed abortion rights to the nth degree. But behind the scenes, like most male feminists in the 1970s, he was talking dirty with Vernon Jordan and manhandling the help. He was a new man with...
...schools, christening buildings, opening military bases. What he is saying is by now rote, the usual praise for Taiwan and the spirit of its people. The people seem to be listening, but they sit on their hands. Then it starts raining, and Chen's words are lost in the patter of drops on the canopy roof...