Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...REPERTORY COMPANY races through Moliere's The Misanthrope with a light touch and airy style but gets bogged down by the heavily symbolic psychological poetry of T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party...
Kittenish Ball. As the prizewinners indicate, interaction must both precede and succeed innovation. Each work unites art and technology so successfully that it responds to a human touch or noise almost as though it were alive. Visitors at the Modern could plug themselves -by stethoscope-into Jean Dupuy's Poe-like Heart Beats Dust. The stethoscope is wired to a sensitive diaphragm inside a clear plastic case, and every time the viewer's heart thumps, a tiny telltale mushroom cloud of ruby-red dust boils up under a spooky cone of light. Robin Parkinson's sonically activated...
...path to a 70-mi.-high circular orbit. Traveling at 3,640 m.p.h., Apollo will circle the moon once every two hours. For 45 nerve-racking minutes during every revolution-when it is behind the moon and blocked from radio communication with the earth-it will be out of touch with ground controllers...
...military aide, Ted Clifton, knew where the bagman was and where Johnson was. And Bishop's statement to the contrary, Johnson had certainly been briefed at least twice on the use of the nuclear emergency system. Clifton, who established communication with the White House, was also in continuous touch with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; any military responses could have been ordered in seconds. Beyond that, the "bag," or the "football," as the suitcase with the codes is better known, was even then becoming obsolete. Had it been necessary...
More Stately Mansions--The unfinished Eugene O'Neill play that picks up where "Touch of the Poet" left off. In its second American production at the THEATRE COMPANY OF BOSTON, 136 Mass...