Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doesn't fit everything--there's something especially out of place in the sort of analytic attention which Maurice Yacowar gives to Woody Allen in his new book, Loser Takes All: The Comic Art of Woody Allen. The cult of Woody Allen would be inexplicable if he didn't touch on some particular mood special to his times--the anxious defeated mood of the likeable losing neurotic. And the extent of his success would suggest that he touches on it rather in kind reassurance than in a searching or nasty spirit...
Superstar 3000 is a not-so-cheap ($39.95) toy electric guitar with a sound synthesizer instead of strings and the ability to remember and play back tunes. The player presses touch-sensitive colored panels instead of frets; pressure at the top of the guitar neck produces a wah-wah or vibrato effect. But Superstar 3000 looks and feels like junk, and doesn't sound like much. Toy musical instruments have always been disappointing, and computer chips haven't changed things...
...Architects, an informal, even gossipy collection of biographical studies of the great and near great of Italian art. This boxed three-volume re-edition, translated by Gaston Du C. de Vere (Abrams; 2323 pages; $225), is of high quality on the inside with gemlike tip-ins, though a touch tacky on the outside with spines of imitation leather. Real cloth would have been classier...
...more serious, also much more compassionate." Goodman is not a columnist who strives for Delphic detachment. "You can't be an anonymous, amorphous 'voice of authority,' " she believes. "You have to establish a person who can be trusted, who is reasonable, who is honest." Her columns touch readers in a very personal way, like a reassuring squeeze of the hand, and at least 100 write her letters every week. Says Mary Jo Meade of Conway, Ark., editor of the Log Cabin Democrat's Weekender magazine: "She usually hits to the core of things, and folks just...
...first overtime, the Crimson came from four points back to force the final session. Bob Allen hit a ten-footer with 2:53 left, and Tom Mannix, his shooting touch returned after a one-night sabbatical at Wagner, nailed a pretty 20-ft. jump shot with just over two minutes left, knotting the game...