Word: conversationalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students say that they appreciate the verbal skills of the professional conversationalist whose voice is carried to over 3.5 million listeners...
...Watson's natural dramatic and stylistic corollary, Linus Gelber plays the eccentric Tristan Tzara with delightful expression and intensity. In some scenes, Gelber is the quiet and effete conversationalist. Then, he suddenly will burst out into a rage of "Dada, Dada," toppling chairs over as he goes. Gelber serves as a necessary energetic interlude in a play that often becomes too quiescent...
...COULD WELCOME the new restrictions because they would cause the extinction of the party animal. Natural selection would replace this predator with the conversationalist, the type that goes to parties to discuss Sartre, or demonstrate some tricks he learned with MacPaint. Harvard parties would become more cerebral, more sophisticated. There would be a free exchange of ideas and opinions much like what took place in the Harlem Renaissance or in the Paris of Gertrude Stein. After all, a party is a party is a party. You only go to parties to meet people anyway. Do you really need alcohol...
...last. Though Detroit's players expressed the usual respect for the opponent at hand, they seemed to imagine themselves in a deeper contest-playing for history. And not just engaged, enthralled. "Great teams are remembered fondly," Trammell sighed dreamily. Upon winning the first game 3-2, convoluted Conversationalist Anderson somehow concluded that a full seven-game Series was assured. "If it don't go seven," he worried, "people are going to miss some of my best stuff...
...comedy writer-producer-singer-songwriter. Until last December, he still commuted to Vancouver to tape his highly popular Canadian daytime talk show. Thicke is a performer who can do everything, kind of. On his new show he sings and plays the guitar like a grownup Rick Springfield. As a conversationalist he can be gently witty, without Letterman's sting or Carson's quickness. "I'm cool in the McLuhan sense," he says. Describing himself as an Everyman, he is uncomfortable with the label of comic: "I'd rather be the genial host at the party...