palship

When they talk, it's mostly in the sentimental-obscene language of service-comedy palship.

And, unlike Obama's alleged palship with Ayers, these things are true.

On cartoon shows, jokes and gimmicks regularly highlight black-white palship.

The only boyfriend I knew she had was this blind guy, and I knew it was just palship.

Kelp, talking through that Kabuki mask of palship, said, "You got some cards for us, huh, Arnie?"

He interviews former G.M. workers who are at their wits' end and strikes up a palship with the man from the sheriff's office in charge of evicting people from their houses and mobilehomes.

Happily, after a "Welcome, Connie" by Mr. Rather and a gentle touch of her arm, the two made no great show of palship, no small talk and no lame jokes in the fashion of the duos on local news.

"When he was thinking of launching George, we had lunch at a tiny Thai restaurant," confided Walter Isaacson in one of the two Time installments, accompanied by synergistic CNN cameo appearances invoking his palship with Kennedy.

He was cranky at first ("You're Arthur's pal"), but apologized and warmed up when I explained that reporting on Mr. Schwartz since 1977, when he was a student thundering stiffly against the Shah of Iran, was not necessarily palship.

Although Ferlin has struck up a campfire palship with E. J. and can use a tenant's rent, he feels an obligation to Sheryl; she's "family," after all, not to mention that Ferlin has been supported for years by the money his sister was supposed to be saving for Sheryl's college.

The staff at Variety magazine also reviewed the film favorably, writing, "Under skillful directorial guidance of Lewis Milestone, the picture retains all of the forceful and poignant drama of John Steinbeck's original play and novel, in presenting the strange palship and eventual tragedy of the two California ranch itinerants.