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Fashion commentators in the press section said there was a noticable difference between the professionals and the students. According to one, the students were "much stiffer" and had "very little rapport with the audience...
These serious external challenges are compounded by the Administration's continued internal difficulties. Chief of Staff Regan has developed little rapport on Capitol Hill, particularly with Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole. Instead of seeking agreement, each tends to bristle and confront the other. That is a sharp contrast to the relative harmony between their two predecessors, James Baker and former Senator Howard Baker. Regan's take-charge aggressiveness recently led three of his trusted former aides at the Treasury Department to warn their old boss that he needed to tone down his public image, arguing that it was hurting...
Reagan and Gonzalez seemed to establish an instant rapport, and even traded anti-Communist jokes over lunch. Reagan told an old one about a Soviet farmer who claims his potato crop is so abundant "it reaches to the foot of God." When a visiting commissar reminds the farmer that "there is no God," the local replies, "There aren't any potatoes either." Gonzalez responded with the one about Karl Marx returning from the grave and going on TV in Moscow to say, "Workers of the world--forgive me!" The First Lady let her hair down as well. During a visit...
Surprisingly, although the songs may have the tone of King Lear, Thompson's non-musical rapport with the audience leans much more to "Monty Python." The night I saw him, he was wearing an outfit that would have made most blush: a turquoise suit with an orange leopard-skin tie slung about his bare neck in something that looked more like a noose than a knot. He even poked fun at his own pessimism by saying. "If we've brought a little doom and gloom into your life, we'll consider it a job well done...
...mother considered herself more liberal in child-rearing matters than her own parents, just as Spock's two sons think he was too conservative. Says Spock: "They say I should have touched, hugged and kissed them more. It's a different environment now." Spock had a harder time reaching rapport with his stepdaughter Ginger, 19. Says he: "The step- relationship is a naturally cursed and poisonous...