Word: rapport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rapport...
...presumably modeled after Jelly roll Morton, provides the other. Yet his relation to Violet is never made clear. There are a few winking--"come over here, Violet and let me tell you about life"--scenes between the two. But Shields always seems too distracted to establish a thought-providing rapport (between, clearly, two helpless victims of the same system of exploitation). When Violet's virginity is served up, Fargas stands in the corner and looks sullenly down his elegant equine nose at the degenerate bidders. But it is not clear whether his roving glance is one of condemnation or hidden...
...policy and in light of Andrew Young's comment that the Cubans were helping to stabilize the Ethiopian situation, the U.S. decision not to sell arms to the Sudan, and the U.S. efforts to include the Soviets in designing the future of the Middle East, they sought a better rapport with the U.S.--thus, the Saudi influence in deciding not to raise the price of oil again last year...
What Wootten strives to keep is a remarkable rapport with his players. When he began coaching in the '50s, the role model for his profession was a Marine drill instructor: shouting, short hair and slavish obedience. But Wootten encouraged his players to call him by his first name. Although he insists on tidy hair and coats and neckties on game day, Wootten allows the team to vote, by secret ballot, on training rules. His simple, if heretical explanation: "The team sets the rules because it's their team...
...attitude of the players and coaches toward the manager can either make or break his experience. "You can take all the pick-up tasks and glorified baby-sitter work if you're treated with respect, which grows out of the rapport a manager develops with his squad," Welch commented...