Word: coax
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...chances of a cease-fire in Mozambique are slight. As the OAU gathered in Mogadishu last week, Scares appealed to the organization to help settle differences that will arise in Lusaka and Algiers. Its ability to aid is doubtful, however. The OAU states have not even been able to coax any measure of agreement from the three rival movements fighting the Portuguese in Angola, one of which is itself split into three separate factions and another of which is holding rival guerrillas hostage...
Today Stevie Wonder no longer needs to coax applause. At 23, he is the prince regent of soul, a slender, 6 ft.-plus superstar in an Afro, whose songs about love, evil, oppression, freedom, Jesus and promised lands are a kind of ecumenical apotheosis of the blues. Still blind, Wonder in the eleven years of his professional career has distilled a wide array of black and white musical styles into a hugely popular personal idiom that emphatically defines where pop is at right...
...about a kiss on account?" "You know who Mame is-she's the Pied Piper"). Beatrice Arthur, the rage right now as television's Maude, brings the movie to life whenever she appears. Her voice-that of a Marine D.I. with social ambitions-can coax a belly laugh from a wheeze. She tucks Mame under her arm and walks away with it, although not far enough...
...Iowa. In Kasebier's day artificial control of props and rigid poses was favored, so her impressionistic approach was frowned on at first. Her pictures avoid clean lines that trace intricate detail and fuse broad patches of light and shade. They don't intend to document, just coax an emotional response. She did a series on motherhood, in which titles were appended as interpretations. For example, "Blessed Art Thou Among Women," and "The War Widow." The latter depicts a lank, forlorn woman with a child raised against her shoulder, her flat white gown leaping from deep shadow...
...humorous aspect of the entire situation." It has been that kind of oh-so-serious campaign, and even half a laugh is scarce in most reporters' copy. Fortunately, readers of the Times and other papers can resort to Columnists Russell Baker and Art Buchwald, who seem able to coax a smile and sometimes even a belly laugh out of the most somber events...