Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reeling, then, we get another look at the source of all this controversy. And in most of the reviews (she picks up from her last book in 1972), the magic touch is all there. Her sensibility works like a scalpel, and she pulls off fascinating dissections of a series of good-but-not-great films. Tackling the incomplete aftertaste left by respectable films like Sleeper, Lacombe, Lucien and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, she wrestles her feelings down with words. She won't let go until she's pinned down the fine distinctions, until she's exposed...
...envisaged the use of U.S. military force only as a last resort. The President called the killings a "senseless, outrageous brutality," but he also declared that the U.S. would not be "deterred from its search for peace by these murders." Throughout, Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was in touch with Middle East leaders by cable, urging safe passage for any American convoy. One such convoy of about 150 people formed up but at week's end was temporarily postponed for security reasons...
...TAIWAN, movies last year attracted an audience of 235 million, indicating that every person on the island saw an average of 15 movies. Seven production companies with 20 sound stages turn out 120 films a year, mainly teenage tearjerkers, but occasional quality flicks too. A Touch of Zen, by renowned Director King Hu, won the Cannes Film Festival top prize in 1975 for technique. Ting Shan-Hsi, winner of the Asia Film Festival Best Director award, has just completed a $2.5 million epic called 800 Heroes, using a cast of 50,000 troops, 30 navy vessels and 50 refitted...
...million people have seen the No. 1 Bicentennial attraction, the Liberty Bell, which has been moved from its traditional place inside Independence Hall to a site opposite on Independence Mall. A surprising number of tourists are astonished to learn that the bell does not ring, but they get to touch it, exclaim over its famous crack and listen to a lecture that tells its history...
...center of power, politics−and, lately, peccadillo. Yet it stirs a sense of pride in most people; it is the only city in the country that belongs to everyone, and to see it, to wander among its monuments and enjoy its green vistas is to receive the palpable touch of nationhood. Last week TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela roamed the city on a pilgrimage of rediscovery and sent this report...