Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crush of reporters, no tangle of television cables. The announcement came by means of an open letter-under a plain letterhead reading "Richard M. Nixon, New York, New York"-that was delivered by messenger boys to the Associated Press and United Press International in Manhattan. As a personal touch, 150,000 copies were mailed to voters in New Hampshire. Addressed "to the citizens of New Hampshire," Nixon's letter recalled his 14 years of Washington service and the forced retirement that followed his narrow defeat for the presidency in 1960 and his rout in California's 1962 gubernatorial...
Wrong Note, Right Touch. One thing all decorators agree on. Their job is to express the client's personality, not their own. Methods vary for discovering just what that personality is. "I look in the woman's closet to see what color her clothes are," says Ellen McCluskey. Says David Bell: "I look at the color of their eyes." Both regard the husband's participation as essential. "After all, he has to live in it and pay for it," says Bell. Adds McCluskey: "I've often found that he's on a budget...
...disputed chair or sofa stating, "I, Genevieve Hendricks, do not approve this piece of furniture." Others are more tolerant. "I like eccentricities-if they are the eccentricities of the owner," says Billy Baldwin. "I approve of permitting the wrong note in a room in order to achieve a personal touch." One of the benefits of the contemporary mood for mixing and matching is that it allows personal touches to be at home. Often they are exactly what is needed to pull a room together and make it both alive and liveable...
Perhaps the most frequently voiced explanation for the report is that Pusey is simply out of touch with the undergraduate population. Those students who found his remarks gratuitous were doubly upset because they so rarely hear from Pusey in any context...
...only Yardling squad to stay at home today, the freshman hockey team, will face-off with the Boston College freshmen at 4:15 p.m. Coming off a loss to Penn last Saturday, the Crimson will have to regain the touch and timing they lost during the exam break if they are to beat the big, rugged Eaglets...