Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couldn't decide on a president last year--almost parallelling our current situation in Washington. The Club has no particular ideology, but it does publish the Democratic Review. At least one freshman has been known to sign up for both the Democratic and Republican Clubs, just to keep in touch with what wasn't going...
After Jimmy Carter's visit to Vienna for the signing of SALT II, all of the U.S. embassy staff in the Austrian capital received notes from White House Staff Assistant Dan Lee. The notes were a nice touch, but the contents left diplomats shaking their heads. Wrote...
Munson died when his twin-engine Cessna Citation I jet crashed 700 feet short of a runway at Akron-Canton air port, barely ten miles from his home. The accident occurred as Munson practiced a series of "touch and go" takeoffs and landings. A licensed pilot since 1977, he bought the seven-seat, $1.2 million jet and was certified to fly it only last month...
...rearranged, are played out in stylized, pageantlike scenes. His birth is presented as his first "great escape." But he remains passionately tied to his mother. Her death at the peak of his career leads him to court, then to denounce, the spiritualists who are unable to put him in touch with her. After his own death, his wife Bess holds seances for ten years in an attempt to reach...
...kissing in a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs. This agreeable silliness works because the script by Allan Burns is sharp and funny, the two young actors are fresh and effective, Olivier is a howl, and Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) has a fine comic touch...