Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nelson) who has drilled himself into a trap of lies persuades his spinsterish nurse (Lauren Bacall) to fill in as his "wife" because his mistress (Brenda Vaccaro) won't agree to marry him until she meets his supposed spouse. Abe Burrows directs this daft farce with a deft touch...
...ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN is a dazzling theatrical spectacle but fails to touch the nerve center of emotion and drama. Christopher Plummer gives a forceful interpretation of the stormy Conquistador Pizarro in Peru...
...battlements. He was in almost constant touch with the three men who from the first have been his chief advisers and sounding boards on the Viet Nam war-Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy. It was Rusk, in particular, who in recent days served as the President's busiest foreign-policy adviser, articulator and lightning...
...small town banker, Hudgins gets personally involved in many loan applications. Doubtfuls usually wind up in his second-floor office to plead their cases, frequently get their loans after careful investigation. "We only take bankable situations," insists Hudgins. But these include some situations that most other banks would not touch. Examples: a small businessman who found himself in hock to a loan shark to the extent of $3,000 a month persuaded Freedom National to take over his loan, now pays only $600; another businessman who asked for $10,000, instead was given $25,000 with tight controls in order...
Author Bishop, a California freelance writer, cheerfully admits that his only credential as a liquor authority is a long and fond acquaintance with the stuff. Apparently, he also set out to touch off a Donnybrook in any roomful of serious or discriminating drinkers. For example, he argues that most drinkers are kidding themselves when they claim that they can taste the difference between competing brands of liquor. Moreover, though most people can taste the difference between Scotch and bourbon on the first drink, Bishop claims that most bourbon drinkers cannot distinguish between different types of bourbon (straight, charcoal-filtered, sour...