Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without his usual co-star and onetime roommate Diane Keaton. "We're just very very good friends," insists Allen. "We haven't been, uh, that way for years." Allen is even managing without his familiar props. "There is nothing big in the film," he says with a touch of regret. "No big bananas or big breasts...
...nothing but poverty and debt until, just in the past few weeks, the rock dream came true for him. ("Man, when I was nine I couldn't imagine anyone not wanting to be Elvis Presley.") But he is neither sentimental nor superficial. His music is primal, directly in touch with all the impulses of wild humor and glancing melancholy, street tragedy and punk anarchy that have made rock the distinctive voice of a generation...
...this time at slow balls delivered by Bill Lee, a free-spirited lefty known as "the Spaceman." But just when it appeared that Lee and Boston were headed for a second victory, a cold rain stopped play for 27 minutes. By the time action resumed, Lee had lost his touch, and the Reds struck for two runs in the top of the ninth to win 3-2. They gratefully accepted the split. "We're lucky to get out of here with our lives," said Cincinnati Manager Sparky Anderson...
Hypnotic State. The ultimate liftoff spot of the putative UFO is unknown, but it seems that HIM disciples generally alternate between traveling in caravans and fanning out in smaller groups or alone in order to proselytize. Some of them have got in touch with news organizations or written postcards home to prove they are well and victims of neither fraud nor coercion. "Try to be happy for me," a 25-year-old Denver man named Larry wrote to his parents. "Don't worry, this is not an S.L. A. group or a Charles Manson group. You have...
...gravel, their cakes of black granite brought to a patent-leather gloss, their iconography of morose kitsch. Hucleux paints them down to the last molecule and the result is a form of trompe l'oeil that contrives to be both meditative and irritating, done with a delicacy of touch that defies analysis...