Word: rapport
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...Kahn, who often pads about his office in his socks, has an easy rapport with his top staff, which CAB critics agree is one of the sharpest in Washington. An outgoing man, Kahn has brought a new sense of style and unpredictability to the once stodgy agency. He has a passion for Gilbert and Sullivan, which he often indulged at Cornell by singing and prancing in student productions. His other obsession is clear English. Says he: "If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong." He admits that...
...took over the 100-year-old Citizens' Theatre in 1969, and began immediately to construct a permanent company and an international reputation. "We're a state-subsidized theater in a large industrial city with very high unemployment, and yet for the last eight seasons we've had a marvelous rapport between the actors and the audience. There are 15 actors, all paid the same, all the same age--there's no attempt at having a juvenile, a leading man, an ingenue, or anything like that. All the plays we do have to fit that number; if there are 30 parts...
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...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...