Word: rapport
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Because Eugene is the channel for the whole drama, the performance of his character is crucial to the success of the play. Bill Selig portrays Eugene as narrator and character both with natural ease. He manages to sustain a candid, jokey rapport with the audience and at the same time can lose himself in his interactions with the rest of the cast...
Right now, "poets and the common reader are no longer on speaking terms." Contemporary poets must find ways to reestablish a rapport with the public. Gioia suggests that poets work in narrative forms. He praises the exploration of traditional meter and form, the use of imagery culled from popular culture and "the restoration of direct unironic emotion"--all qualities of the New Formalist movement in poetry. Gioia characterises New Formalism as "the latest in ...[a] series of rebellions against poetry's cultural marginality." As a member of the New Formalist vanguard, Gioia himself rebels not only in poetry, but also...
...president doesn't need a good rapport with Congress to enjoy the powers of executive orders. These presidential prerogatives are one reason why the last election was known as a competition to be "the most powerful man in the world." Executive orders can range from sudden military incursions--like the bombing of Libya or sundry other targets outside our hemisphere--to a quick allotment of funds, perhaps for the cleanup of a Florida hurricane...
...Clintons at an annual New Year's Renaissance Week at Hilton Head, South Carolina, some years earlier. But it wasn't until she was summoned late last year to Little Rock, initially to be vetted for the post of White House counsel, that she struck a fast rapport with the President-elect. "Clinton likes people who he likes," explains a presidential aide. Baird also boasted an impressive connection to the Clintons' alma mater, Yale Law School: her husband is a constitutional scholar on the school's faculty...
Jesse fairly bubbles over in agreement with Jerry about how rewarding the rapport between stylist and client...