Word: rapport
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...Honeywell Industries, is, no doubt, an exquisite piece of machinery and Hall's pride for his prize purchase is somewhat understandable. But keep in mind that I for one cannot relate to computers and I am only a little better at relating to people who develop a deep, emotional rapport with them...
...minority leader. Afterward, he expects his assignment as Vice President to be to shepherd Administration bills through Congress. He explains: "Working with Democrats and Republicans, I want to try to build a bridge of friendship, a bridge of understanding, a bridge of faith. I think I have an excellent rapport with my colleagues...
Ford has been good at rapport all his life. He was born in Omaha and christened Leslie King. Two years later his parents were divorced, and his mother took him back to her home town, Grand Rapids, Mich. There she married Paint Manufacturer Gerald Rudolph Ford, who adopted her son and renamed him. For pocket money in high school, the young Ford waited on tables in a Greek restaurant. A strapping 6 ft. 197 Ibs. when he entered college, he played center on the University of Michigan's undefeated national-championship football teams of 1932 and 1933. Along...
...Truffaut one of the most affectionately regarded of all directors. Once he and his compatriots in the French New Wave were challenging many of the precepts of commercial film making. Now they find themselves ensconced inside it. "My age-41-is not a good one to strike up a rapport with youth," Truffaut reflects. "But I'll meet them again, through my films, in 20 years...
...instinctive response is to turn away from Disney. After all, the promotional goo about magic, warmth and wonder that has been ladled over him and his works in the past 20 years would make even Bambi puke. But Disney's really interesting side was not the fabled rapport with children (from all accounts, he was about as innocent as Bobby Riggs and somewhat less likable) but the grip of organization-first in his art itself, and then in the area of business and social manipulation-which made Disneyland and Disney World possible. He turned himself from a cartoonist into...