Word: coax
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...golfers to study a green as though it were a minefield, surveying each blade of grass along the intended route. Their stances vary from the pigeon-toed crouch of Palmer to the cross-handed contortions of Orville Moody. And once the ball is on its way, they try to coax it along into the hole with some of the most astounding body English this side of a Martha Graham troupe. The stakes are worth it. As some laureate of the links once observed: "You drive for show, you putt for dough...
...entire Haynsworth-Carswell episode?from the nominations through Nixon's angry protests?underscores that failure of leadership. Instead of accepting the Senate's rebuke gracefully in the realization that he may have needlessly contributed to the impasse, Nixon reverted to mundane politics, trying to coax partisan advantage from adversity...
...feels like really getting into it tonight. "I've just had an idea," he says. "Tonight I want you to try and play each act like it was the whole show." Once the play starts he can't do a damn thing about it. Until then he can coax them, threaten them, scream at them. Tonight he is coaxing...
...tries to become a butcher. He fights his father; yet he wants his father's approval-and deeper still, he wants to be his father. In scenes that are amusing and astute, the son proposes marriage to his father's mistress and later tries to coax his mother into leaving the awful man and coming to live with...
...queen of players. At no other point does the play rise to this level of theatricality. Salome Jens adorns the evening physically as a Russian Mata Hari, but she delivers her lines like a fishwife. As for Maximilian Schell, he is frostily remote. Director Peter Glenville doubtless tried to coax some emotion out of Schell, but he might as well have pleaded with a two-by-four...