Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thin & Dusty. For hours no one would know for sure. While the JPL crew waited anxiously, Mariner swooped around the back side of Mars. It was out of touch with Earth for 54 minutes. During this maneuver, it performed one additional and highly important experiment. Mariner beamed radio signals back to Earth through the atmosphere of Mars. By examining the changes in amplitude and frequency of the radio waves as they arrived on Earth, scientists hoped to get a better idea of what Martian atmosphere was like...
...forsaken Scots girl in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Sutherland was in superb voice. Authoritative conducting was provided by her husband Richard Bonynge, and there was an authentic touch of the Scottish highlands in the sets and luxurious costumes. Result was 33 curtain calls. As La Stupenda plucked sprays from Cooktown orchids for the supporting cast and kissed her husband, enthusiastic galleryites stamped so loudly that a nervous opera buff sitting below wondered: "How long can the theater stand the strain of a Sutherland tour...
...three-part series appeared, the police put Strachan under house arrest, then dropped in on the Rand Daily Mail and confiscated the typescripts of the series. The final installment had already been set, and the paper courageously went ahead and printed it. When no other newspaper would touch the story, the Rand Daily Mail blandly noted: "There is no onus on any person who has copies of the three issues to dispose of them...
...later: "A fellow my age has no right to do that." At 42, he compiled a season record of 23 victories against only seven losses, thus winning 20 or more games a season for the 13th time. Last year Milwaukee Manager Bobby Bragan decided that Spahn had lost his touch, relegated him to the bullpen. Spahn ended the season with six wins and 13 losses...
...Petri is deft and stylish with an escapade between a svelte, sexually inhibited matron (Claire Bloom) and an ardent industrialist (Charles Aznavour). After chasing around the tycoon's sumptuous beach house, the lady reveals that her whim for today is rough stuff in a sleazy motel room-a touch of aberration that is clue to a conventional surprise ending. In the last episode, Modern People, directed with rich detail and folksy color by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), a cheese dealer (Ugo Tognazzi) offers his wife to a creditor in payment of his gambling losses, only...