Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minority leader. Afterward, he expects his assignment as Vice President to be to shepherd Administration bills through Congress. He explains: "Working with Democrats and Republicans, I want to try to build a bridge of friendship, a bridge of understanding, a bridge of faith. I think I have an excellent rapport with my colleagues...
...Truffaut one of the most affectionately regarded of all directors. Once he and his compatriots in the French New Wave were challenging many of the precepts of commercial film making. Now they find themselves ensconced inside it. "My age-41-is not a good one to strike up a rapport with youth," Truffaut reflects. "But I'll meet them again, through my films, in 20 years...
...instinctive response is to turn away from Disney. After all, the promotional goo about magic, warmth and wonder that has been ladled over him and his works in the past 20 years would make even Bambi puke. But Disney's really interesting side was not the fabled rapport with children (from all accounts, he was about as innocent as Bobby Riggs and somewhat less likable) but the grip of organization-first in his art itself, and then in the area of business and social manipulation-which made Disneyland and Disney World possible. He turned himself from a cartoonist into...
...learned much of his craft at the Last Chance, and the take from the gate paid part of his tuition. Playing at the club gave him an opportunity to develop an easy stage rapport. "I consider working with audiences an education," he said. "You have to learn the ability to adapt yourself to different types of people." But the nightclub environment became stifling. "I was becoming Brock Walsh the live jukebox. All people wanted to hear was Elton John. That was the least dangerous stuff to do, if you didn't want to offend anybody...
...Military Rapport. But the Pentagon remained on relatively good terms with Chile's military brass. Last year, for instance, the U.S. extended $10 million to the Chilean air force to buy transport planes and other equipment. The military rapport was so solid, in fact, that stories were circulating in Washington last week that U.S. officials had known about the coup up to 16 hours before it took place...