Word: simpatico
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...SWAP THAT Isn't a Swap has been hailed as a rational, face-saving gesture that enables neither side to claim victory. It also supposedly demonstrates that Reagan and Gorbachev are simpatico in their desire to reach an arms control agreement...
...Cuomo style is a mixture of warmth and wit. He is simpatico. As a reporter embarks on a question, Cuomo yells out, "I deny it! I deny it!" He describes something that irks him as "just a walnut in the batter of eternity." In the midst of a conversation Cuomo is having with an elderly woman from Queens, his press secretary, Martin Steadman, sneezes while she is talking. "That's a Yiddish sign," she says, "that the person talking is telling the truth." Cuomo turns to Steadman: "Next time, see if you can sneeze while I'm talking...
...sharp edge of grief--the death of a parent, for instance--may slice through one's day-to-day sensibilities. Personal tragedy becomes linked to universal--to war to cruelty, to the inevitability of death it self. Similarly, a supremely wonderful or insightful moment may spark a feeling of simpatico towards humankind in general, a sense that maybe, at that moment a fellow on the other side of the earth is thinking the exact same thought. D. M. Thomas understands these moments, and it is his particular gift to be able, in his writing, to reveal and explore this pulse...
...between N.Y. and L.A. is fueled at Broadway's Biltmore Theater by Furth's comic sniper fire. In Director Gene Saks' nimble hands, the characters suffer the gauntlet of Pacific perils from mudslides to brushfires to shudderingly mirthful earthquakes. Furth's people are antic and simpatico. Mae (Betty Garrett) has been an offstage mother to her orchestra conductor son since he first brandished a baton. That he is 40 and a bachelor mortifies her, but not as much as having blurted out on a TV interview that he was not a homosexual...
Italy has produced so many Popes partly because the Supreme Pontiff also serves as the Bishop of Rome. He must not only lead a catholic (that is, universal) church, but he must also be simpatico with the people of Rome and of Italy, to whom he is spiritual father. Would Romans applaud as enthusiastically for a Pakistani or a Canadian as he was borne down the main aisle of St. Peter's on the sedia gestatoria as they would for one of their own? A Vatican watcher points to the answer: "I don't know of one Italian Cardinal...