Word: rapport
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Withal, the Zoo Opera generated a rapport between artists and audience that made for something special. "It was a fun palace," says Peerce. "An alfresco thing, where you asked a soprano to hold your Coke bottle while you went out and did your death scene. The peacocks never snouted me down. They liked tenors, it was only coloratura sopranos they hated...
...repeates scenes we have witnessed earlier, only this time without sound. As expressed by a slightly closer camera, the visual ugliness which lurks beneath the monied elegance of the boy's surroundings becomes all the more pronounced. The boy finally retreats to his room, with which he has no rapport, and cuts himself off from anything else happening in the house. Unfortunately, his mother has fallen down a long flight of stairs. Having no further ability to hear sound, the boy descends in an elevator, unaware of his mother's dying moans. In the final sequence Chabrol cuts from...
...influence of a White House aide on a particular issue, Dent's impact has obviously been growing heavier. He is now Nixon's chief political-liaison man, replacing John Sears. Once an associate in Nixon's law firm, Sears is a New Yorker who has some rapport with the party's liberal wing. In the White House, however, Sears found that he had only limited access to Nixon and that two far more powerful aides, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, undercut his position. Dent has no such problems. He gets on well with Messrs...
...eminent psychologist for his shrewd manipulation of audiences as well as actors. Some of the praise seems fulsome: Jerry Lewis has been compared favorably with Ingmar Bergman and Orson Welles. Still, general acceptance of the auteur theory has given American directors new power with major studios and fresh rapport with audiences. Though no American film maker has yet achieved the stature of Italy's Visconti or Britain's David Lean, a handful seem to be well on their way: ∙ ARTHUR PENN. A product of television and stage work, Penn successfully brought his Broadway hit, The Miracle Worker...
...allow the approval of residential renewal projects only after a policy committee, composed solely of residents of the project areas, with full veto powers over the plans, approves those plans. It is in this manner, and only in this manner that we can establish the kinds of trust and rapport that must exist if urban renewal is to work for the citizens of Cambridge whom we serve...