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...been in foster care since he was 6, Hancock and his sister-in-law, who provided moral support during the process, were charmed by a certain family resemblance. "He's one of us," they concluded. When Hancock and Steven met a week later, they developed an instant rapport. Driving home later, Hancock phoned the caseworker to say, "You can close Steven's file. He's mine...
...system where signatures are rarely all authentic. "We are fighting against the power, and we're not going to let them get away with it," Mussolini told TIME from across a fold-down table in her cramped camper. Yet Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said last week that his rapport with Mussolini was "excellent," and that sooner or later she will realize her destiny lies within his center-right coalition. With regional polls coming up in two weeks, and a fraught race already emerging for next year's national vote, fringe parties like Mussolini's are punching way above their...
Take, for example, the film’s showcase scene: Travolta and Uma Thurman dancing together in a direct nod to their iconic scene in Pulp Fiction, a movie whose success built off the relaxed rapport of its characters. Here, there is no charisma. It appears as though the actors are simply enjoying their paychecks and investing almost none of their acting passion in the scene. Eating that extra Happy Meal and killing Bill have tired out these once-sprightly performers, and the scene fails...
John Constantine, on the other hand, has a close if prickly rapport with the major angels and demons of the universe, and two symmetrical forearm tattoos that, when pressed together, create howling wind and various other supernatural phenomena. (This, too, is never fully explained in either the movie or most Sunday school curricula, but we assume it’s one of the finer points of the Catholic catechism...
...Music is a language, and as you become more and more fluent, you can connect with people in a really wonderful way...even [with] people you haven't even met on a personal level yet.” After a particularly good jam session, he describes the rapport and old-friend like bond that develops between musicians, “just cause you've hit the groove right...