Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forever, just the way we are now. And that's the whole philosophy of a country where no one ever really dies. We ignore it. We're going to solve everything, do everything, live forever. It's not true. It's simply not true. But we have lost touch with the element of life that conditions life, that creates life. We exist in a series of self-created cliches...
...FOREIGNERS living there, turn-of-the-century Peking remained a "Forbidden City." The pleasures of the hidden quarters, lying in wait for the foreign touch, only suggested the more refined, if more hidden, pleasures of the Imperial count. With their triumph over the native Boxer rebels in 1900, Westerners penetrated the political decadence of Peking. But beneath its new mask of subservience to the West, the reality of the old court, filled with power-hungry eunuchs, stocked with useless riches, was preserved...
...just that, driving the Crimson downfield via the turf on its second possession of the game, before lofting a 20-yard TD aerial to Jim Curry on a play-action maneuver. Later in he quarter, Brown asserted Harvard's dominance again, leading a touch down drive that ended with a flip to Scott Coolidge...
Bauhaus furniture had to wait for decades before going into production-and then those uncomfortable "functionalist" chairs, designed to mortify the flesh of worshipers in the church of absolute form suffered the bizarre irony of becoming expensive status symbols for corporate lobbies. No worker's bottom would ever touch them...
...land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm," a substance buried deep within planets that "is in touch with the Absolute, at base." She writes with irreverent abandon: "Yank the Absolute out of there and into the light, God pale and astounded, spraying a spiral of salts and earths, God footloose and flung...