Word: elicitation
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...were signed by Lorenzo, who critics suggest is responsible for many of Texas Air's woes. Few airline executives elicit as much personal enmity from the troops as he does. And high-level subordinates have not found it easy to deal with the workaholic chairman, who often telephones them late at night with probing questions. Tom Volz, a former Continental senior vice president who now runs Las Vegas-based Sunworld Airways, says Lorenzo is "more interested in new deals than food quality and cleaner planes...
...least not the John Wayne movie man. He is a soft guy in a tough spot. Even after Alex boils Ellen's pet rabbit on the country cottage stove, Dan cannot inform Beth that he and Alex were lovers; Beth has to elicit the fact by asking him directly. The women have the cojones in this picture. It is Beth who will earn the movie's first cheer when she tells Alex, "If you ever come near my family again, I'll kill you, you understand?" And Alex who will take Beth up on her dare, swiping Ellen from school...
...taxi dancer who in the face of all experience remains a fool for love, to the ironically identical finale, this version zips along with style, assurance and the ingredient it lacked in its 1986 Broadway reprise, real heart. Whereas Debbie Allen seemed too tough, too much a survivor to elicit audience sympathy when she played Charity on Broadway, the road show's Donna McKechnie -- the original Cassie in A Chorus & Line -- manages to be forever vulnerable without seeming stupid. As the buttoned-down businessman who takes up with her, says he can forgive her slightly checkered past and then finds...
...procedure followed by the House and Senate select committees, which are sitting as a joint body, resembled a good-cop-tough-cop routine. Secord was first questioned for two days by John Nields, counsel for the House panel, who for the most part tried simply to elicit the former general's basic story by posing questions of the please-describe-that-meeting variety. Secord related that North had asked him in the summer of 1985 to put together a private network to take over the delivery of arms to the contras after Congress had $ passed its ban. Just...
Some woman. Some wind. Without formal education or social aptitude, she manages to elicit some highly sophisticated concerns: the limits of language ("God's writing stands as an instance of a writing without speech. Speech is but a means through which the word may be uttered, it is not the word itself"); the kinship of the oppressed ("Friday's desires are not dark to me. He desires to be liberated, as I do too. Our desires are plain, his and mine"); and historical irony ("Even in his native Africa, dumb and friendless, would ((Friday)) know freedom? There is an urging...