Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even for $750,000, this pagodalike structure cannot be made to blend with its surroundings. Either the old master of our century is losing his touch, or my neighbors have recently taken to the rice paddies...
Winnie and Nottie. The President never made it quite clear just what C.C.S.D. was up to, but he left no doubt in his neighbors' minds that war with Russia was touch & go, and that their only safety for the future lay in joining his ranks. As an added inducement, he let fall almost casually the names of some who had already consented to serve in his presidential Cabinet: Sir Winston Churchill as Minister of War, Britains Lord Nottingham as Foreign Secretary ("Winnie" and "Nottie" to the President) and International Bank President Eugene Black as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...House of Madame Tellier blends a Rabelaisian humor with an almost feminine delicacy of touch. Madame Tellier's house is a brothel in a small Norman city, and Director Max Ophuls' camera peeks through doors and latticed windows at the girls and their guests, islands of light and laughter in the tomblike silence of the town. Then one night the house is closed tight, and its baffled habitues turn away from the door to wander unhappily in the streets...
When Chicago Sculptor Abbott Pattison got a commission to do four pieces of sculpture for the University of Georgia, he saw an opportunity to bring a touch of modernism to the sleepy, oak-shaded old campus. Pattison moved to Athens as sculptor in residence, last year put up his first work, a sharp-edged abstraction in marble. Somebody poured a can of green paint over...
...series of profiles of the Houses, by Gaylan Bergman, is an outstanding innovation--the single best touch in the book. Draper Hill's caricatures of the Housemasters are also entertaining...