Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader who wants to know from a review only if the film is worth seeing, Carmen Jones presents no problem: see the picture. It is an experiment and it is largely unsuccessful. But even its failings are unique; you may touch quickly on every rough edge, you may commiserate with the memory of Bizet. You will probably not regret, however, having seen Carmen Jones...
Continuing CARE's personal touch--the recipient of every package will learn the name and address of his American benefactor--the arrangement will tend to eliminate the suspicion and resentment that sometimes surround handouts by foreign governments...
Aware of these factors, the Latin Americans capitalized on U.S. embarrassment with masterful gamesmanship. Instead of seizing exuberantly on Fulton's statements, they soberly noted that he might not be fully informed-but they also showed a touch of sly pity for the U.S. team, thus quietly encouraging the notion that it did not represent U.S. opinion. As Humphrey flew back to the U.S.. the U.S. negotiators, humiliated and angry, buckled down to the job-now immeasurably more difficult-of holding their present position without arousing dangerous resentments among the Good Partners...
...Please do not touch!" reads the sign posted beside the display of still lifes on exhibit in the University of Wisconsin's Library Gallery in Madison. But the fascinating assortment of smoking pipes, fiddles, Confederate bills, newspaper scraps and crumpled chewing-gum wrappers-all seeming to leap out of the canvases in vivid perspective-is too tempting. Furtively many a viewer last week glanced around to see if anyone was watching, then probed gently at the paintings to see whether the pictures actually were painted or just pasted...
...franchised dealers? Some thought not. Said R. H. Macy & Co. Appliance Chief Elliott Walter: "The G.E. announcement is not important. List prices have not been observed for years. G.E. has just recognized a fact which has existed." But many a marketing expert thought the price break at G.E. could touch off a price war among major appliance makers that could wreck the whole foundation of Fair Trade pricing...