As the characters trade off songs, Catherine's story moves backward in time to conclude with the joy of their initial meeting.
Like the apartheid-spawned violence and humiliation that the play's characters trade frightened stories about, the suit casts an inescapable and blighting shadow on Philomen and Matilda's private world.
The characters trade millions of imaginary dollars of stock every day, "shaking fingers in one another's flushed faces; buying, selling, in an intoxicated, maddened state of nerves and mind bordering on insanity".
Along the road to resolution, the characters trade wisecracks that would seem worldly only to preadolescents, dance aerobically and perform numbers ranging from syrupy ballads ("Love's Never Easy") to insistently rhythmic, full-throttle production routines.
These characters trade in their PCs for new ones at twice the rate of average computer owners.
My movie viewing advice: Rent the film When Harry Met Sally where the Meg Ryan character trades her bad boy obsession for the nice guy/best friend played by Billy Crystal who talks to her and is really capable of loving her.
Characters trade formal lines that lack the leavening humor of manners lampooned; you're reminded of the stilted formality of the director Whit Stillman's smugly elitist youths in films like "Metropolitan," minus the droll undertone.
2006 was a year when British bands succeeded by strength of character: trading on their eccentricity and regional variation, a good band was one with little regard for accepted notions of cool, and the policy has certainly won them respect.
Depp added the puzzling touch about his character trading bird seed for objects like native pendants taken off dead men he encounters (or kills).
