Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico and central Texas. In some Texas saloons, tin cups were put by the cash registers to collect funds for professional rainmakers. Oldtimers glumly compared conditions to the famous drought of 1903-04, when a man could cross the Verde River over the carcasses of dead cattle and never touch foot to the dry riverbed...
Today French and Vietnamese alike boast that the Viet Minh no longer have any chance of taking the deltaunless the Communist Chinese step in to help them. While the Chinese are known to be in close touch with Ho, the six months' rainy season that starts in May will make the roads in northern Viet Nam and southern China all but impassable to large-scale Chinese troop movements. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh were attacking on a 75-mile front north of Hanoi, deploying 30 to 40 battalions for daylight battle in open country for the first time...
Besides these, of course, there were the players to make the system move. The T may afford greater deception, and the short punt formation may be more suitable for passing. But for an offense based on solid football fundamentals, nothing can touch the Michigan single wing...
...fellow men queueing up for the Miss America Doll (including choice of permeating perfumes), it seems to him that "she" is precisely the "mechanical lust-putty" that they have been hankering after all along-an erotic object chosen solely according to "criteria of eye and ear and nose and touch," devoid of all "personality . . . mind . . . ideas or a soul." It is inevitable, Gaunt thinks, that this lascivious dummy, this triumph of an all-male civilization, should be entitled "Miss": to dub her "Mrs." would be to suggest to youth-worshiping Americans that possession of her "implied responsibility, authority, claims, duties...
Comedy becomes slapstick, courage becomes arrant braggadocio, and even the celebrated nose assumes absurd proportions under Ferrer's touch. He forgets that the one extreme about which Cyrano's character revolves is that of unswerving devotion to a personal code of honor. By removing this one characteristic of universal appeal from Cyrano, Ferrer has also taken away the element of audience self-identification, perhaps the most important aspect of the play. This is not to say that Ferrer's acting is not often superb. It is. In the balcony and convent scenes, he extracts the utmost from Rostand's brilliant...