Word: touche
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Feldman does not yet have Brooks' sure ability to touch and goofily transform each and every cliche base on which his chosen model rests. Around the middle of this picture, energy flags and a sort of desperate silliness begins...
Playboy's announced decision to give up those readers primarily interested in porn [July 4] is hardly the same as not staying in touch with society's "shifting sexual standards." In response to the more personal part of TIME'S patronizing putdown ("surrounded by young beauties, he looks a dour sybarite"), I can only say that Contributor Thomas Griffith obviously has his own very personal definition of "square." Oh to be as hip as you swinging newsmagazine men in New York...
Nowhere have I seen so many mirages as I saw in Eritrea. To reach out one's hand for what is clearly a shimmering pool of water nestled among rocks, to see reflections in the water, and then to touch sand and feel insects biting: this happened several times, as if one could never learn the lesson. It got to the point where to save precious water, I dry-washed my hands with dirt, only later to find my fingers and palms itching from infinitesimal slivers of thorns hidden in the dirt...
...merely an outlaw underground, tend to be stigmatized by the word Mafia. Should the question be: Can this term unintentionally offend someone? Or should not the questions be: Is there an organized underworld? Is it actually called the Mafia? If so, to call it something else is to lose touch with reality...
Obsessive Labor. There may be a touch of madness in this method, but De Niro has never really tried any other. Given the results, he would obviously be crazy to stop now. The son of two Greenwich Village artists, De Niro was only 16 when he snared his first serious acting jobs. Some 14 lean years and much obsessive labor followed before he gained wide recognition in Bang the Drum Slowly. Only two years later, in 1975, he won an Academy Award for his role as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. "I wasn't what...