Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committees do link the Kennedy brothers with the plots against Castro's life, as TIME sources have done, this may add impetus to demands for a renewed investigation of President Kennedy's death. No investigation has established that Lee Harvey Oswald had been in touch with any Cuban leaders or could have been part of a retaliatory attack on Kennedy for the U.S. efforts to kill Castro. The significance of the Kennedy connection to anti-Castro plots is not that it strengthens the many Oswald conspiracy theories, but that it tends to knock down the notion that...
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...Touch and Go remains casual about matters of plot, however, and gets lazy in its joking. There are too many Italian-army gags, for example, all having to do with stupidity or cowardice. Even more drastic, the film has an insinuating cuteness, like De Broca's much-cherished King of Hearts. De Broca works hard at being likable, and makes it, finally, alto gether too easy...
...front room and the stack of fourteen bars of soap beside it. Raised as I was on Right Guard, Dial, and Johnson's Baby Shampoo, it was hard to get excited about soap. But as a material good, it has its advantages: it's solid to the touch, fits right in your hand, and smells nice. Soap was her step into twentieth century consumerism. It wasn't a very big step, but then nobody in Africa has taken a very big step into a consumer society. Everybody seems to assume they will, eventually, though--instead of calling them "underdeveloped countries...
They wouldn't let us touch the typewriter. I guess they thought we could send messages out on it. I don't think anybody got sick on their food even though it wasn't what you would go into a restaurant and order. They served us first and ate the leftovers...