Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TYPICAL OF THIS predicament is the opening number ("Howdiadoo"), where we meet Georgy for the first time as she plays with a bunch of little kids. The point of the number is to tell us (a) Georgy has rapport with kids and loves them and (b) she is kooky. But it doesn't work because (a) We don't know whether these kids are worth loving or even what her relationship to them is and (b) flip-flop clothing and jumping up and down to the steps of a mundane choreographer don't communicate a real kookiness, but only serve...
...finally, the Patriots' dubious rapport with Boston College last year, which was hardly suitable for a team that is lucky to have any stadium at all to play in, should make Harvard hesitate to form an alliance. On several occasions, Patriot coach Clive Rush openly insulted the College and its administrative abilities, and once, before a flock of Boston sportswriters. Rush insisted that he would have BC hockey coach Snooks Kelley fired because the latter's Sunday hockey school was disturbing him as he attempted to address the press in the BC rink...
David Starr Klein commands the second act as Azdak. He revels in the part, establishing a comfortable rapport with his audience from the very beginning. His complacent irony is the luxury of someone in on the Big Joke of our pretensions, so much so that he would threaten us if he weren't such a self-proclaimed slob. Even if he weren't backed by such solid supporting characters, Klein would make the second act worth staying for, though he does have a tendency to get so wrapped up in Azdak that he jumps on his cue lines...
...gave the key leaders cuff links bearing the Presidential seal plus pearl-ringed brooches for their wives. He offered general thanks, said nothing of his disappointments; his warm mood conveyed the impression that he did not intend to veto any major bills. It was the kind of rapport-building gesture that politicians of both parties had wanted him to make months earlier, though it is questionable whether gestures would have helped improve the final product...