Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's a nostalgia song, called "They Don't Dance Like Carmen No More"; a shoplifting song, "Peanut Butter Conspiracy," about how you never know when the hard times'll hit you, so you better keep your touch; a simple bouncing love song called "Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit"; and a ghost-conjuring ballad about an adultery/murder/suicide and how the newspapers missed the human tragedy: An it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old-fashioned... Anjejos and knives a-slashing But that's what the people like to read about Up in America...
...what they will look like in a family album. Relaxed, some are even able to smile. One particularly pompous couple included a mother in the second picture (one suspects the groom's mother, but it's hard to tell). The old lady's face wears an expectant smile, a touch senile, but beatified...
...Carol Horn, 39, a Coty winner last year, also covers the world-Japan, Rumania, Guatemala, India-but on a budget. A native New Yorker who had no formal fashion training, she uses offbeat fabrics that "people want to touch," and makes inexpensive multipurpose clothes such as a crinkled cotton caftan. "My ideal garment," she says, "is one I can walk around the house in, toss over a bathing suit at the beach, dress up with accessories and wear out at night." Her Habitat ready-to-wear line did $5 million retail in 1975, its first year, and is expected...
...entries from the diaries of participants, he reconstructs the five exorcisms. The material varies: at times he evokes nothing more than memories of William P. Blatty's lurid prose or of bad National Enquirer exposes; alternately, without warning, Martin produces rather alarming dialogues between exorcist and spirit that touch at the heart of modern evil. This is the strength of Hostage to the Devil; it offers an insight into the evil not only of Buchenwald and My Lai but also into the more personal evil of everyday life. Whether you believe in possession and the devil or not, Martin presents...
...clothes are what you see first, from the unmuddied sneakers and bleached athletic socks to the bright satin basketball uniform with the letters stitched on the back: 15 Lansdowne. He is part of a team which is playing a game and the game is this: look but don't touch. Smooth-faced youth and athletic grace are the common denominators among the waiters here. He weaves between tables and chairs like a pro headed for that tie-breaker basket. Clean hair, clean suit, clear eyes, clean cut; we're convinced that when the bar closes...