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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four sane people at that particular gathering. We were talking about the Street Choir, who were playing for a ridiculously heterogeneous audience of musicians, reviewers, recording executives in sharkskin suits with greasy skins, and Albert Grossman, the Sullen Santa Claus of the Pop World, the man with the golden touch. His long iron-grey haired presence thoroughly dominated the whole scene. He stood in the back of the room averting his eyes...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Fading in Rock Phantasmagoria: A Personal Autopsy of the Boston Sound | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

...roots of Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy. Suppose a person has none of the normal mechanisms of perception; in what terms will be formulate his understanding of the world? Peter Townshend's answer is that the world is understood wholly in terms of vibrations, perceived through the sense of touch I presume. Thus, his recreation of the story of a particular deaf, dumb, and blind boy is wholly musical. He is seeking not only to imagine what such a person is like, but to translate it into terms that anyone can feel and understand. Furthermore, this is all simply...

Author: By Michael Cohen, | Title: The Who: It's Very Cinematic, You Know | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

...great American nickelodeon," Will Rogers called the Post. During the early decades of the century, it brought humor, sentiment, pragmatic soothsaying and a touch of romance into millions of households. In smaller towns, especially, it was the prime medium of family entertainment. But it was more. In its pages, readers saw reflections of themselves-or, at least, reflections of what they liked to think of themselves. The Post's greatest editor, George Horace Lorimer, insisted that "editors must be ordinary men"; and it was the values of ordinary men-cozy domesticity, a sense of humor, a belief in decency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

When Danny and his friends wanted to play touch football, dad's chauffeur would drive them to the playground in a long, shiny automobile. That was fun, but for Danny the greatest fun of all was the idea of some day having a foot ball team of his very own, Why? As Danny once told a friend: "Isn't it the dream of every American boy to own a football team?" For Danny, at least, it was. So, in 1941, when he was 28 years old, he went out and bought himself a team named the Rams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Pros in the Playground | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

...through the clinic in motley procession: a homicidal schizophrenic who was repeatedly raped and beaten at the age of nine; a wheelwright working even as he dies in penance for an imagined evil; a young girl, orphaned and being kept captive by syphilitic whores. Their tragedies begin gradually to touch the young doctor until, at film's end, he finally tells Red Beard that he wants to remain at the clinic. "You'll regret it," grumbles Red Beard, turning to hide his pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Epic Vision | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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