Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...check extra. Some picture checks may invite forgery, since a signature could get lost amid the busy patterns. That consideration has been overpowered, however, by the new checks' appeal to women, who are doing an increasing share of family banking, and to many people who hunger for any touch of individuality in the everyday things that they...
...assuredly through Pushkin's tale of romance and betrayal, never assuming the luxury of a dance-for-dance's-sake diversion, bending every movement toward dramatic ends. Shrew, with music by Domenico Scarlatti arranged by Stolze and liberally peppered by his modern harmonies, adds a welcome touch of wit and tenderness to Shakespeare's buffoonery...
...sort of La Chinoise for squares. When a French graduate student (Thalie Fruges) goes to bed with her professor boyfriend (Vit Olmer) for the first time, Director Yves Ciampi actually cuts to an exterior long shot of the light being turned out in the garret -a graceful, old-fashioned touch that is fairly typical of the entire film. Activists will be angry that Ciampi is obviously more interested in passion than politics, since he uses last spring's political riots merely as a plot device to separate the lovers...
...that "it's for his own good" and accepts the little stab without protest. A four-year-old who cannot grasp this concept will probably scream. The adult will almost certainly make some vocal protest if he is taken unawares, and he may do so at the first touch of the dentist's drill if he has been expecting it to hurt. Both surprise and fearful anticipation are elements in reactions to pain...
When we compare the urban environment of Harvard with that of certain other large universities, we find cause neither for smugness nor despair. The precincts of the university, both in Boston and Cambridge, touch on the neighborhoods of the poor, both black and white. The Personnel Office seeks to recruit employees from a labor force that contains many persons who, owing to inadequate education, lack of skills, or a steady exposure to the barriers of racial discrimination, are chronically unemployed or underemployed. Within walking distance of Harvard are public facilities -- schools, hospitals, and recreation areas--that are dilapidated, undermanned...