Word: raconteur
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...What we'll all miss most about Art Buchwald is his wisdom. Yes, he had a gift for describing the human comedy. But at bottom he was a courageous, graceful and insightful man who just happened to be a great raconteur...
...endlessly amused by human folly, particularly his friends'. He would repeat tales of indiscretions and infidelities with rogueish, non-judgmental relish. He could even rejoice in another's meanness-a quality he detested-but only if it was of such spectacular proportions that it made a good story. Raconteur is a word that normally provokes a shiver of dread, but you could listen to Len all night. I never heard him stumble over a name or punchline, even when by rights he should have been stumbling over the furniture. And every tale, bawdy or screamingly funny, showed an understanding...
...they hit, you feel them in your gut. And each film has at least one shining moment, whether it be flatulent cowboys or synchronized-swimming nuns. A big disappointment: no Brooks commentaries. The collection is incomplete without a juicy vat of pinwheeling ad libs from the foremost tummler--sorry, raconteur--of our time...
...fact-finding trip to Asia in February went better than either side expected. Clinton let Bush have the lone bedroom on the Air Force plane--a gesture Bush appreciated. Although Clinton is a well-known raconteur on overseas flights, it turned out that Bush was the charmer on that trip, introducing everyone all around, taking a shine to a couple of Clinton's aides and generally making folks feel at ease. Clinton was more subdued, still recovering from his quadruple-bypass operation five months before, but not so much that he could resist staying up at night playing Oh Hell...
MARRIED. Garrison Keillor, 43, wry raconteur of U.S. small-town foibles on radio's A Prairie Home Companion and in his phenomenal best seller (1,064,000 copies) Lake Wobegon Days; and Ulla Skaerved, 42, Danish former exchange student in Keillor's Minnesota high school class of 1960, whom he met again at a 25th reunion last summer; both for the second time; in Holte, Denmark...