Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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POLITICAL ANALYSIS frequently seems out of touch with events in time. But, while the business of ideological pronouncements and shifting alliances among radicalized elements in the Arab world seems by its very complexity to preoccupy its adherents, paradoxically choking effective action, Ismael would have us believe (and rightly so) that the flowering of such groups carries a message which ought to shake the Western Powers out of complacency, compelling them to reexamine their own alliances and operational stances. "In a word, if the sufferings of the Arab masses are not alleviated and if the basic aspirations of these masses...
Shanghai had its own version of the casting couch, and she was often seen with Chang Keng, a director and prominent Communist Party official, who told party comrades that she "belonged" to him. "She's my girl," he warned them, "so don't touch." She insists that she was able to keep him at bay, whatever his claims to the contrary. When she refused Chang Keng's offer of marriage, he forbade the League of Left-Wing Dramatists to give her roles. Worse still, he branded her with the scarlet "T" -spreading the rumor that...
...Johnson, winner of the new Adolph Rupp Trophy as the nation's top player, is a dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the strings so often for San Francisco that Dr. J. comparisons follow him like autograph hounds. His teammate 7-ft. Bill Cartwright has a soft shooting touch and an altitudinous, B-52 dunk that conjures up memories of U.C.L.A.'S Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man whose size and skills were largely responsible for instituting the anti-dunk rule in the first place. But size is not quintessential. Alabama's Kent Looney...
...widely publicized report was highly critical of the GSD, charging that the school suffers from a "drift away from professional competence" and is "out of touch with the best people, and the best work," in the field of design...
...Stahr's lover. Pinter and Kazan apparently took their cues from a line in the novel in which Stahr refers to Kathleen as a "Beautiful Doll." Ingrid Boulting is precisely that--a porcelain figure, heavily made-up and beautiful to look at, but seemingly ready to break at a touch. There is no real sensuality in her, none of the flesh-and-blood passion Fitzgerald probably means to suggest when he has Kathleen describe herself as "sex-starved...