Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next 90 days, ruled U.S. District Court Judge Prentice H. Marshall, the department must hire 400 new officers-50% of them black and Hispanic males, 16.5% women and 33.5% white males. The judge also imposed a similar quota on future hiring. Until the city complies, added Marshall, it cannot touch U.S. revenue-sharing funds that were withheld from Chicago since December 1974 under a separate but related suit and now total $95 million...
...noticing him, too. During the overture he weaves shots of his audience into a vast mosaic of human faces (cutting to the beat of the music), and he returns obsessively to a belond angelic little girl who by some odd coincidence looks a lot like Liv Ullman and a touch like Bergman himself. Between acts his camera wanders around backstage, where Sarastro reads the score to Wagner's Parsifal, the Queen of the Night drags grimly on a cigarette, a court page reads comic books, and the two lovers play checkers in a coy parody of The Seventh Seal...
...fairy tale atmosphere of the first part dissolves into a full-fledged Victorian novel of materialism--a family struggle over inheritance, Barry's mother's desire for her son to get a peerage, the social ostracism that Barry faces after an outburst of physical violence. Kubrick's elegant touch is not entirely lost, but it is squandered and irreversibly diluted. At last a strange plot line emerges. The Countess of Lyndon's son by her first husband, Bullingdon, conceives a hatred for his stepfather that is largely justified by Barry's behavior. Barry becomes the doting father of a spoiled...
...Cuisenaire rods helped budding arithmeticians learn the basics of addition and subtraction. Example: using sight and touch, a child could tell that a 3-cm. green rod plus a 5-cm. yellow rod equaled an 8-cm. brown...
...success. When William Bell first thought of The Young and the Restless in 1973, he had in mind only the poor Foster family supported by a wrung-out mom, and the quartet of well-to-do, glamorous Brooks sisters, mired in sibling rivalry. "I look for things that touch people's lives," he explains. "I'm disappointed if my shows don't produce tears from the audience three times a week." Agnes Nixon defines the difference between daytime and prime-time drama as "the suffering of consequences." There is no time at night to experience the result of foolish actions...