Word: elicitation
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Archie Bunker used to elicit subtle chuckles when his distant toilet flushes echoed through the Bunker house. When patriarch A1 Bundy runs to the john, the conversation inevitably turns to constipation and masturbation. Roseanne wins affection for her lovable white-trash quips. The overhaired, undersexed leopard-skinclad Peg Bundy can only dream of the life of subtle sophistication enjoyed by Ms. Barr...
Unfortunately, the evident health dangers to women from Rust do not have equally evident political benefits. When matched against a picture of innocent babies being sent to slaughter, images of ill mothers--often minority, unwed and young--elicit little sympathy from moderates and conservatives in Congress...
...friend in Los Angeles received a disturbing telephone call from a Scientology staff member seeking data about me -- an indication that the cult may have illegally obtained my personal phone records. Two detectives contacted me, posing as a friend and a relative of a so-called cult victim, to elicit negative statements from me about Scientology. Some of my conversations with them were taped, transcribed and presented by the church in affidavits to TIME's lawyers as "proof" of my bias against Scientology...
True enough. But the hearing had some odd ripples. One unintended result was to make North something of a national hero. And in the end, the congressional investigators failed to elicit from Poindexter hard information about Ronald Reagan's complicity. That remains murky. Former Senator John Tower, who headed a special Iran-contra investigative commission that operated independently of Congress, suggests in his upcoming memoirs that Reagan was directly involved in a "deliberate" cover-up effort...
Despite the scorn the pitches often elicit, there are indications that consumers don't mind the junk deluge as much as they sometimes say. A national survey released last June by Equifax found that direct-market mailings stimulated 54% of all Americans to make at least one purchase. One of every six Americans has made six or more purchases through the mail. By contrast, only 15% have bought at least one item through TV home-shopping clubs, and only 14% have responded to telephone solicitations...