Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Owen did not stop there, said the court. When players needed easy academic credits, he allowed them,to take courses in "handball, basketball, volley ball, touch football and individual gymnastics." Defendant George Chianakis got credit for "elementary badminton, elements of tumbling, golf and boxing." Melchiorre, who needed an extra credit to graduate, "selected an hour of social and square dancing" with a class of Bradley coeds. "It was," said he, "an entertaining course...
...course. Now, now boys, mustn't touch the ferris wheel, must we. There now, look out for that motor... What madame?" I took the reference with a shrug and started to ask about the latest in atom bomb kits. She shoved a microscope at me and raced down to the other end of the counter. Two of "my" boys were racing the mechanical cars head...
...sensation : hundreds of newspapers reprinted it, radio stations dramatized it, judges read it to traffic offenders or made them copy it. Fellow editors who had regarded Wallace as only a scissors & paste man began to change their minds. They began to realize that he had an extraordinarily common touch-a feeling for what the reading public wanted and how they wanted...
...Light Touch (MGM) opens with a deft lesson in the art of stealing an old master's painting from a crowded Italian museum. A self-contained little thriller, from the planning to the getaway, this sequence is plotted and timed as neatly as the theft itself. It also pegs the film's picaresque hero without a wasted motion. Stewart Granger is the Raffles of art-clever, nonchalant, cynically aware that the painting is on loan from a church altar, so thoroughgoing a rascal that he not only carries on an affair with his henchman's wife...
...front-office demand for an ending that wrenches the hero out of character. Brooks's own movie is a stock item too artificial to pose this issue as a problem of integrity, but by wrenching Granger out of character for a happy ending, he burdens The Light Touch with its heaviest going...