Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bomber" had struck. His calling card: a crude but workable bomb made of gunpowder, set to be detonated by a cheap watch movement wired to a flashlight battery-all contained in a short (2-5 in.) length of ordinary pipe capped at both ends. And, to provide the final touch, the pipe was stuffed into a man's red sock...
...Explained Tomihara blandly: "Americans did not order me to chop off Naha's credit. I am doing so because Senaga in his campaign speeches said that if elected he would refuse all U.S. aid. You do not lend money to a man who has said he will never touch...
...offers in Ulysses a median figure, a brilliant yet unavailing man of the world. Such characters help deepen the play's mood, interrupt slithering words with resonant poetry, reveal not just the lashes of scorn but the salt tears of feeling. In its unevenness, Troilus does touch depths; in its waywardness, it does sometimes strike home...
...Boing Show probably makes the most artful use of color yet seen in television; the reason is that the palette is in the hands of artists. Even though it loses much as black-and-white viewing, the show's appeal is unique in current programing. Its light comic touch, in both content and style, keeps the most fragile whimsy aloft and should start adults elbowing children for space in front of the set. In fact, its one flaw may be that in reaching adults it loses the younger of the young...
...sprinkled throughout. To keep the spirit of improvisation intact, Bethlehem indulged in some offbeat casting, with surprising results. Frances Faye's bone-dry, heart-of-gold style is strangely apt as the voice of the inconstant Bess, and Mel Tormé's smoky tones give a proper touch of pathos to the part of the crippled Porgy. The oily voice of Al ("Jazzbo") Collins fills in narrative gaps between tunes. This procedure dilutes some of Porgy's dramatic excitement, but musically it is an exhilarating affair...