Word: yessir
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...Biscuits and Bertha's Kitty Boutique. At the 15-minute mark Keillor wanders onstage, looking solemn, and tells everyone he does not believe in unsentimental farewells. He wants howling and lamentation, he says; he wants people to throw themselves on the floor and wrap their arms around his ankles. Yessir...
...uniforms set upon the trio. "Can't you move any faster than that, son?" barks an officer, after ordering the new men to unpack and then repack their belongings. One panicked inmate starts to respond. Snarls the officer: "You don't ask me questions, son! Do you understand that?" "Yessir." "I can't hear you. Speak up, son!" "Yessir!" Minutes later, the young men are sitting in straight- backed chairs having their hair mowed to a stubble...
There was nothing artificial about the response when Jackson emerged to speak. His talks are not connected discourses but collections of applause lines that bring shouts of "All right! . . . Talk it up, Jesse! . . . Yessir!" building steadily. He begins slowly, his voice strong but not strident, his phrases short. He gathers speed and volume, often breaking into a cadence that scans well as impromptu free verse...
Step right over here, madam, and take a look at this rare collection of 100 paintings. Yessir, these are real beauts, all of them done in the inimitable styles of Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and other early modern masters. Well, to be honest, not quite inimitable styles. The paintings are actually by a clever Hungarian counterfeiter, Elmyr de Hory. Considered the world's premier art forger before his death in 1976, De Hory fooled even museums with his master-fleeces. Eventually De Hory was so famous that he began signing his "fakes," and many of them have found their...
...that you could tell from the response the audience gave punctuating the performance with rapid-fire pops of champagne corks, and yells to roommates on stage. There was enthusiastic cheering for almost any reason, and quite often no reason at all. Yessir, the proof (about 110) was in the Pudding last night. Some of that approval was deserved--especially by the night's two, terribly underutilized heroes...