Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9 p.m. to conclusion). A poverty-stricken British naval commander (James Mason) concocts an ingenious plot to have the newspapers call him a traitor so he can sue for libel in A Touch of Larceny (1960), co-starring George Sanders and Vera Miles...
...largely in an effort to change the image that Julie took on a straight role in The Americanization of Emily. She played a freshly widowed World War II British Army chauffeur whose notion of rest and rehabilitation for the wounded went considerably beyond TV and touch football. Her loyal friends say that she never performed better, but Julie, perhaps her own best critic, is convinced that she was "rather lost...
Joyce was racked by jealousy. He wrote Nora: "At the time when I used to meet you at the corner of Merrion Square and walk with you and feel your hand touch me in the dark and hear your voice (O Nora! I will never hear that music again because I can never believe again) at the time I used to meet you, every second night you kept an appointment with a friend of mine outside the Museum, you went with him along the same streets, down by the canal . . . down to the bank of the Dodder. You stood with...
...specter of fire in a man-carrying spacecraft has long haunted NASA scientists. In the pure-oxygen cabin atmospheres of U.S. craft, it seemed all too probable that a random spark from electrical equipment or insulation overheated by a short circuit might touch off fires that would blaze with explosive fury...
...facade is a Greco-pueblo-neo-Monticello compromise, and like most compromises, likely to please no one. The drumlike walls are sheathed in adobe-colored concrete trimmed with a red brick cornice; narrow porticos add a Federal touch; bronze doors, capped with Greek pediments, are set in four entrances that project to form, in an air view, the Zia Indian tribe's radiating symbol...