Word: touche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this film is just plain fun. Ernst Lubitsch, the man who made it, was known for the "Lubitsch touch," an adeptness at light comedy coupled with extraordinary photographic technique. His films impress one as distinctly modern, certainly not as museum pieces...
Lubitsch also deals in social comment, but the touch is so gentle that no one could be offended. A scene in a luxury hotel in Venice closes with a shot of a garbage scow on the canal, the boatman breaking into lusty song. A young Bolshevik scolds an indulgent heiress, but his overzealousness places the joke equally...
...board of judges to look over the magazines and pick the publication that showed the greatest improvement over the previous year. As it happens, every year for the past twelve we have made another award-to the college or university that has done the best job of keeping in touch with its graduates by mail...
...strapping, hamhanded man with slicked-back hair and brooding mustache, Michelangeli ambled onstage with the baleful nonchalance of a boxer bent on mayhem. Once he settled at the keyboard, his touch was featherweight light, his attack crisp and restrained through Debussy's liquid Images and Beethoven's soaring Sonata in C Major (Opus 2, No. 3). After two encores and a dozen curtain calls, he unconcernedly ambled offstage to a standing ovation. Typically, following his triumph, he repaired last week to the regenerative quietude of a month-long teaching engagement at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Untypically...
...Cupid is the pick of the lot. The other sexcerpts look to Boccaccio chiefly for borrowed glamour. Cupid, updated from an irreverent Decameron tale, retains the full flavor of its source, and suggests that the thing missing from most movies about sex is a master's touch...