Word: rapport
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...ORPHEUM last weekend, during the first one-and-a-half hour show Zappa played "commercial," responding to screams from teenyboppers for recent tunes like "Yellow Snow" and "Penguin in Bondage" and established a fine rapport with what was basically a rock and roll crowd. His newer, funkier melodies flowed together in an extended medley which included a few unrecorded instrumentals and vocals ("Pajama People") and some songs for the "old folks" ("I'm Not Satisfied" and "Dog Breath...
...Thin Man [1934]. This is one of the finest comedies of the thirties. Dashiell Hammett wrote the script from his own crime novel of the same name, and drew the marriage of Nick and Nora Charles from his own arrangement with Lillian Hellman--a quick and sophisticated rapport where constant insults only feed their affection. Their craziness is harmonious because everyone else is a creep. William Powell and Myrna Loy star, having cocktail number one at breakfast and shooting out the tree bulbs at Christmas...
...common Irish biddy, she is forced by financial hardship to ask his charity. She does so only after great deliberation, and then almost instantaneously decides to become a loving mother-in-law as well. This unnatural, almost absurd changes of heart towards Sara makes Deborah's subsequent rapport with her hard to swallow...
...crowd was an impatient one and seemed only marginally interested in the musical dabblings of the opening act, Triumvirat. The group's leader, however, won the audience over with a couple of numbers featuring impressive work on keyboards. He achieved an excellent rapport between his electric keyboards and array of synthesizers whose tone quality was among the best I have yet to hear at a live set. What resulted in his being the center of attention was not his highly proficient synthesizer manipulations, but rather the rotation of his eyeballs which left only the whites of his eyes...
...start out with 'my dear, darling husband' and how much he's doing for Cayuga County or wherever the hell he comes from. But if you listen long enough, you find out she doesn't give a hoot about Cayuga County. If you really establish rapport with one of these wives, she will come right out and tell you how horrible her life...