Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN is a dazzling theatrical spectacle but fails to touch the nerve center of drama. Still, Christopher Plummer gives a forceful interpretation of the stormy Conquistador Pizarro in Peru...
Bass keeps in close touch with events in his state. "There are some big elections next fall and I'll be covering the campaigns over the summer," he explained...
...commented: "We're standing eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked." Addressing 200 college-age members of the Senate Youth Forum on foreign-policy problems, he assured them: "If you think you're confused, take heart. You're only in touch with reality...
...Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes to the tyke, and then stuffed its mouth with sugar-cane stalks inscribed with the lucky beast's name, Phisanuphan (meaning "auspicious royal elephant"). That last touch is crucial, since without it, a white elephant soon forgets what he's called...
...mother, on the other hand, was "warm and gushing." Dag was her fourth son, and because she had yearned all along for a daughter, she dressed young Dag for a long time in girl's clothes. Says Stolpe: "One may, without wishing to touch upon a delicate theme, guess at some connection between, on the one hand, Dag's attitude to his devotedly loved, exacting mother and his stern, reserved demigod of a father and, on the other, the fact that throughout his life he remained not only unmarried but so far as is known without any realistic...