Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Olmsted foresaw that the "town" would soon surround his creation, installed four cross-park driveways. A touch of inspiration led him to sink the driveways below ground-level and thus preserve the park's visual harmony. Fighting off the people who wanted to embellish the park with opera houses, race tracks, cathedrals and fire stations was more difficult but almost as successful. Today, the one notable encroacher on the park's priceless real estate is the Metropolitan Museum...
...stock boy in a Detroit department store. But in their own lands, many were noted scholars; they have come to the school via concentration camps, from jobs as elevator men and lemon pickers, and in some cases from U.S. university faculties. To make sure they keep in touch with student problems, all teachers must put in time on an unfamiliar language...
...Electrons," he points out, "can supply the brains for the control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...
...Operatic Touch. Near Nishnabotna, Mo., Tippler Clarence Carmen was arrested for shooting up a meeting of the local chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...this plot as lovingly as the crack-brained murderer, plays it for wry irony and unexpected humor as well as suspense. But he seems less interested in making his audiences believe in the story's outrageously rigged situations than in teasing, tricking and dazzling them with the masterful touch of a talented cinematic showoff. In a familiar shot of tennis spectators pivoting their heads to & fro, he plants the conspicuously immobile head of the murderer, staring at the hero. He intercuts a Forest Hills tennis match, which Granger desperately tries to win in time to intercept the villain, with...