Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Breslin will turn out a monthly piece for New York, the magazine he helped start after the World Journal Tribune folded. But mostly he will write fiction, which some of his meaner critics claim he's been doing all along anyway. It's touch and go whether the world of letters will shine brighter because Breslin is there, but it's a certainty that newspapers will seem greyer without...
However, five minutes of nipples and mouths could easily have been condensed to one, keeping the audience in touch with the context. Instead the audience sits bored-except for Miss York's beautiful and exposed chest--by the tameness of the sex, and tensely awaiting the fade-out to signify.... Suddenly Sister George walks into the room and the thread of the story is picked up with a thunderclap, rather than merely resumed with the more usual "fifty minutes later" effect...
...Most courses given currently are defined as well taught, but they do not touch on the full complement of art historical issues," stated the audit which was released last week. It suggested that the department...
...going to say before I said it, someone to talk to who would surprise with her reactions--because she was innocent. Maybe I could tell her a little of what was waiting for her in the next few years. (She was too gentle for me to more than touch her cheek when we said goodnight.) She said she didn't have imagination, and I knew she didn't lie. She laughed and listened well, but she was uneasy when I tried to get her to make up a story or pretend she was someone silly, just for a moment...
...uncle. A tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), edgy man with fingernails as long as claws and half-simian features, Pushkin pursued all the known excesses with prodigious energy. Though he was ugly, he exerted a vast sexual attraction through his sheer intensity. A fellow student recalled that at the touch of a dancing partner's hand at a ball, Pushkin's "eyes blazed, he panted and snorted, like an ardent horse in the midst of a herd of young mares...