Word: conversationalist
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...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...
...whose 1951 work The True Believer dissected fanaticism; in San Francisco. An itinerant laborer for much of his early life, Hoffer was widely known in the '60s through his syndicated newspaper column. He gave it up in 1970-"I don't want to die barking"-and became "conversationalist at large" at the University of California at Berkeley...
...novelist Robert Penn Warren summed up the legend of his friend Katherine Anne Porter just before her death in 1980 at the age of 90. Once upon a time there was "a beautiful woman, wanderer in many lands, witty, restless, fanatically devoted to her art, a charming and accomplished conversationalist, and in the end, after all sorts of poverty, rich and famous...
King often lapses into a conversational tone. After all, he is a conversationalist, a veteran talk-show host who gets paid--and paid well--to speak. The book is at its best when it becomes casual and King sounds as if he's speaking...
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, is said to be a witty conversationalist, a bibliophile, a connoisseur of modern art?a kind of "closet liberal." He also happens to be the former boss of the world's most powerful, and possibly most feared, police organization...