Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Guns at Batasi (1964), a tart, topical drama about a military coup in Africa, starring Richard Attenborough as a starched relic of the Kipling era, hopelessly out of touch with the age of Kenyatta...
Miss Bavan, singing, handled the dramatic parts quite well, but she did not prove to have the light-but-searing, crisp touch needed for the whimsical bits...
...smoke too much. I light a cigarette every time I want to touch someone. People do not want hands on them...
Another problem was his inability to perceive the organic emotional continuity of this great work. He missed the miracle of the Scherzo, in which Beethoven keeps an ostinato theme from becoming mechanical, by adopting a slow tempo. There was hardly a touch of gentleness and sway in the priceless slow movement in which every phrase should be continent and compassionate, where lyricism and drama should perfectly intermingle. Yannatos tolerated reticent playing, displayed an at times staggering lapse of taste in phrasing, and generally enervated the performance by failing to grasp the dramatic ethos of Beethoven's universal consciousness...
Wherever there is an unpopular cause that most lawyers would not dare touch, Bill Kunstler seems to show up as defense counsel. Kunstler, a Manhattan attorney, is a kind of courtroom paladin who specializes in protecting the right of dissent and even civil disobedience His recent clients include the Black Panthers, Negro Militant Rap Brown Yippie Jerry Rubin, and Roman Catholic draft protesters in Milwaukee and Baltimore. Since Kunstler's role is usually to attack well-entrenched precedent he can be counted on for an original pro vocative argument...