Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Church mission to Cuba was also something of a milestone: the Senator landed in the first U.S. Government plane to touch down in Cuba in 16 years. "At least," as Castro joked at the welcoming ceremony, "it is the first time one has come here legally...
...working-class characters in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1959) and Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1960) did indeed rail at the upward immobility of the British class system; it was Sillitoe's cool precision in portraying them that made these fumings so hot to the touch. Sillitoe's restraint, his continued attention to the Nottinghamshire region of his own childhood, are quiet virtues that the noisy passage of 20 trendy years in England sometimes eclipsed. On the evidence of his 14th novel, these qualities have also made him a long-distance writer...
...brand of discipline, when imposed, has helped to touch off riots in Cairo and intra-government disagreements in Peru. When the dictatorial Peruvian regime refused to impose IMF restrictions last month, both the head of the Central Bank and the Finance Minister resigned in protest. No doubt the IMF and the private banks will reach an accommodation with Peru, possibly by stretching out debt repayments...
...little and hearing other groups. The other day he liked a song on the radio, but had not the slightest idea what it was or who was singing it (he later learned that it was the Swedish group ABBA). Kristofferson does not like being that far out of touch. Like any pop composer, he feeds on what is going on around him. And so he looks on the tour with Rita as a time to rev up: "My circuits are almost on overload. I need a groove, any groove...
...after their deaths, questions about the couple's guilt or innocence quickly grow heated. Manias stalked the land in the "50s; public and private life had the quality of a Manichaean morality play. Coover knows this, presents all the evidence, and then denies his book the ability to touch hearts or minds instead of nerves. What might have been a long, compassionate look becomes a protracted sneer. Paul Gray