Word: coaxings
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...takes some doing to coax a roomful of sage, serious adult Harvard students into the frame of mind where they will laugh and cheer hysterically at the sight of other Harvard students thrusting one another behind draperies, only to stumble on still others. But it undoubtedly can be done. And while none of the group that troops out--forgetting, for laughter, to rub its collective strained neck--will go home and discuss the finer points of drama, few will escape without the four-year-old gleam in the eye that comes from one last swoop on the ferris wheel...
...touch of Borg's off-court charm had rubbed off on the bumptious Big Mac. At a White House reception for U.S. Davis Cup and Wightman Cup teams, McEnroe seemed to bewitch First Lady Nancy Reagan, 60, with his new-found gentility. He was unable, however, to coax President Reagan, 70-who prefers his mornings on horseback-onto the court. "I used to play when I was younger," said the President, "but I don't any more because I can't get the horse on the court." -By E.Graydon Carter...
...attack of nerves. On the morning of the day her new play, a suspense comedy titled A Talent for Murder, opened in Washington, D.C., the fire alarms rang in her hotel and everyone was ordered to flee the building. She scurried around, picking up valuables and trying to coax Bijou, the cat, from under the bed. By the time Bijou was out, the gongs were silent -false alarm-but the damage was done. "I was shaking for 20 minutes," she explained later...
...Hineni, she leads consciousness-raising classes, is finishing a book, writes pamphlets (e.g., Meaningful Sex-A Jewish View) and answers 600 to 700 letters a month. Occasionally Jungreis will boldly park her "heritage" van outside a Hare Krishna or Divine Light Mission outpost and with a loudspeaker try to coax young Jewish converts into leaving...
...Beirut for talks with Lebanon's President, Elias Sarkis. Then he climbed back into his black limousine for a midnight drive to Damascus, where he met for the second time with Syria's President, Hafez Assad, to impress upon him the need for restraint while trying to coax concessions that might break the negotiating impasse. Later he hopped aboard an executive Air Force jet for another shuttle to Israel. At week's end he flew to Saudi Arabia for consultations. Lips sealed on the progress of his explorations, Habib told reporters at the airport in Damascus...