Word: coax
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...example, director Victoria Wei has the cast make the bold move of actually wandering down the middle aisle of onlookers and addressing them directly. At the closing of the first act, the disciples coax some members of the audience into joining an onstage dance...
What in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Answer: one of the hottest and most successful new tools in the childhood-learning market today. What began six years ago as a mystery-style computer program designed to coax youngsters into using reference books has blossomed into a public television game show, a best-selling set of computer video games, a series of adventure books and a collection of jigsaw puzzles, all popular with kids age eight and up. "It's addictive," says Jonathan Pray, 13, an eighth-grade student in Golden, Colo., who has been prodded by Carmen into memorizing...
...dramatic expansion of the supply side. Otherwise, the risk is that Choice will prove to be little more than a government subsidy to parents who already pay private or parochial tuition for their children. Yet the Bush Administration cannot mandate the creation of alternative schools. Washington can goad and coax with the carrot of federal money, but revamping public education is largely beyond the purview of the White House and Congress...
...task for the West is to coax nations with die-hard leftist tyrannies into as much engagement as possible with the outside world. That will accelerate the inevitable transformation of their societies and perhaps even reduce the danger of bloodshed. The more external ties a country has when the internal pressure finally blows, the better the chance that its regime will be dislodged unceremoniously but safely, like the Dzerzhinsky statue in Moscow, rather than come crashing down, killing many of its subjects...
They -- the bosses -- wish. But the men with the money know they have had to hand a lot out to get a lot more back. And Arnold or Sly Stallone didn't need an Uzi to coax $12 million out of a production chief's pocket. Considering the current wave of penny-pinching promises, Variety's Art Murphy predicts that "smaller will be better. Until a producer overpays a star for a film that turns into a monster hit." And the cycle will continue, as long as people are fascinated by the mystery of charisma and will...