Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cuscat. "I learned what I know from him," Tushim tells Wilson. "At the middle of the day when the sun stops in the top of the sky, my grand-father would not speak because then God says the names of the sinners, and my grand-father would hear." The rapport between Tushim and Wilson gives the novel a genial immediacy, spiced by curiosity about each other's personal life. ("'In your country in the night,'" Tushim asks the novelist," 'how many times does a man work it with his wife?'") The dialogue between the two storytellers is allowed to intrude...
...effort to prevent such a sales lag, Polaroid has refused to provide any pictures or drawings of the new camera, and some of Land's closest advisers urged him to withhold last week's public viewing. However, over the years Land has established an exceptionally close rapport with his stockholders -they once loyally broke into applause when informed by the founder that Polaroid would probably not show a profit that year-and he evidently decided that they deserved the first look...
...Instant Rapport. He gained his first elective office, at the age of 44, when he became executive officer of Baltimore County, and suddenly his career took off. It was George Wallace, as much as anybody, who made Agnew Governor in 1966, Witcover judges. Fighting for power in Maryland, Wallace helped Agnew appear attractively liberal as a crusader for urban renewal and against discriminatory housing...
...reasons, and drove him into the arms of Richard Nixon. Agnew's only previous contact had been a long unanswered letter. "That damn Nixon!" he exploded to a friend. "He won't even answer your letters." But when the two sometime losers finally met, there was instant rapport...
...Coppola has done much more than cover Puzo's sloppier tracks. He has managed to pick up the loose stitches and thread together an epic family chronicle, expressing its conflicts with an immediacy and a love for detail of location and character that can only come from the deepest rapport with the subject matter. Comparisons have been made with Gone With the Wind, and snots have sniffed at the melodrama which can't be separated from the tenets of the retold crimes. No matter. There's heart to the work, and it starts to beat when the Don says...