Yet, among my Chinese interlocutors, I find a growing feeling that what's worked for China for the past 30 years — a huge Communist Party-led mobilization of cheap labor, capital and resources — will not work much longer.
In the ensuing Twitter back-and-forth with multiple outraged interlocutors, I focused on defending the rational integrity of my case – without pausing to consider that it was badly marred by its lack of rhetorical integrity.
That's not because I've cultivated a winsome, bulletproof persona to intimidate would-be interlocutors – I'm as vulnerable-seeming a comedian as you could ever hope not to encounter.
A now-famous quote has Mattis, then the senior marine in the volatile Iraqi province of Anbar, informing a local interlocutor: "I come in peace.
(In fairness, as a trained interlocutor, I was not above using the heat wave as a brilliantly subtle ice breaker for interviews. "A scorcher, huh? So, what are your attitudes on politics and individual rights?") I never found air-conditioning in Qinghai — and thank god for that.
Interlocutor: "How long have you lived in Portland?" Drone: "Lived?" Interlocutor: "Is there a notary public in this neighborhood?" Drone: "Is there?" Drone ultimately approaches all conversation as a series of concurrent monologues, his own focussing, strangely, on whether the grooming product "beard oil" is meant to reduce facial squeaking.
Godard tells his interviewers (three of whom were in their mid-twenties) of his desire to advocate for a pair of new directors, Jerzy Skolimowski and Jean-Marie Straub, and one of his highly informed interlocutors responds (I'm citing from the classic translation by Tom Milne, in "Godard on Godard"): Not so easy with the film-lovers ("cinéphiles").
While most displaced people want to go back to their homelands, "many interlocutors whom I met, in particular in North and South Darfur states, remain anxious about the security situation in their areas of origin … as well as the restoration of sustainable peace in the region," Nononsi said in a statement.
Those Mets are my team and the team of many of my barroom interlocutors, and I've noticed that the latter, like the fans of any club, are most resistant to suggestions that one of their own boys has transgressed the country's pharmaceutical laws.
I was with someone from the American Association of Publishers, my interlocutor and I were talking about how much we loved his work.
On his show the next day, a caller asked how the interview had gone, and Savage described his interlocutor: "If I told you he looked like Obama, I wouldn't be far from the truth".
