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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Star is Born shows the beautiful people in rare form. Not once during the film does either star have a shirt buttoned above the navel. The clothes are mostly of satin, sequins and silk. Such affectations suggest a hairdresser's touch. In fact, Jon Peters, Streisand's hairdresser and husband, produced the film--and her permanent looks great...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: A Reviewer is Bored | 3/29/1977 | See Source »

Blye himself is something of a chameleon. He is 42, with a pleasant, forgettable face. It is in some of his convictions about how to do the job that fact and fiction touch. His wardrobe includes "an FBI outfit" - blue suit, white shirt and red tie ("It makes people want to stand up and salute"). His car is filled with hats of all styles - deeply valued props. Another prop consists of a wife and two children. The Blye family drives up to a house and, as the detective notes, "even subpoena-shy people are usually helpful to a man with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: True Detective | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...evil effect she has on those around her. In the process Dexter has robbed Lulu (and Farley) of the intensity she needs. Up against Donald Gramm's fierce twin portrayals of Dr. Schön (one of Lulu's lovers) and Jack the Ripper, a touch of evil would not hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu and the Cinderella from Idaho | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

Linda E. Berzin '80, a French citizen, said she is "very excited" about the concept of HUISA. "When I arrived at Harvard, I sort of lost touch with the international world," she said...

Author: By John D. Weston, | Title: International Students | 3/25/1977 | See Source »

...identity through acting: dissimulation is the armor of internecine struggle, but after a while the masks become frozen in place, forever blocking out the vestiges of humanity underneath. Lies are stacked so thick that appearance and reality are confounded, and an anguished Queen cries out: "Scenes. I can't touch my sons except in scenes...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Masks and Machetes | 3/24/1977 | See Source »

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