Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Mozart was 9, the last when he was 31, just before he finished Don Giovanni. The treasures here are the Sonata No. 4 in F Major and the Sonata No. 5 in C Major, Pianists Haebler and Hoffmann play them with leafy serenity, geysering wit, and a crystal touch that never grows hard or metallic...
Tremblers & Traps. To stay ahead of the game, Britain's bomb men must call on a vast knowledge of chemistry, a store of cold nerve, and a touch as delicate as a Piccadilly pickpocket's. Hartley's first step is to chart the bomb's precise position by magnetic detectors that reveal the depth, how big the bomb is, how it lies. The trouble is that as bombs grow older, their metal tends to polarize with the earth, cancel out fine magnetic measurements. Hartley must know that a big, blocky bomb like...
Since the script calls for only four actors (and uses only three of them most of the time), it is essential that each player be an accomplished "light comedian" if the frailty of the play's skeleton is not to show. An airy touch, good timing, and graceful movement are primary prerequisites...
...happened, the lunch never came off. and De Vries, like a character in one of his novels (Comfort Me with Apples, The Mackerel Plaza. The Tunnel of Love), was left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49-year-old Peter De Vries the leading comic geographer of commuterland. Humorist De Vries surveys his world with the wacky vision of a man who has inadvertently put on the wrong pair of glasses...
...foliage is a ripe young secretary. But the most surprising development of this renaissance is artistic. A lifelong doodler, the AWOL diplomat tries a little weekend sketching and (here we Gauguin!) is startled to find that he is an artist of astonishing power-a Rubens, perhaps, with a touch of Renoir. Within a year he is in Paris, painting his broad-hipped housemaid by day, panting for her by night. But the late-blooming bohemian's idyl is broken by Edith, who shows up to buy a painting and promptly recognizes the lamster. Will he turn worm...