Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encouraging" and a "reaffirmation" of continued American support. More sophisticated Vietnamese were skeptical. Ford, observed one doctor, really meant that "we're on our own. April 19, and then it's over." Commented Saigon's Chinh Luan newspaper: "This speech came to South Viet Nam just as a final touch of a magician seeking to give a few more minutes of life to a dying patient...
...build behind any ordinary coat rack. Other caches are less allusive but more ingenious. As Krotz's book amply diagrams, hiding places can be constructed behind false electric-plug plates, in drains or even around drain pipes. "Make a mysterious apparition of metal under the sink-a touch filthy. Who would want to stick his hand up there? You will...
There is even a touch of protest in today's events--the people's Bicentennial Commission, which says it wants to reclaim America from Wall Street, will be holding an all-night vigil in Concord while its parade permit lasts, in a celebration designed to call forth the harsh, indominable revolutionary spirit...
Lissa Muscatine grew up as a tomboy. While she was an elementary school kickball captain and a backyard basketball and touch football star, she did not play any varsity sport in junior high or high school. In fact, before she emerged as one of the leaders of the 'Cliffe hoop squad last winter, she had not played organized basketball at any level. "I didn't play basketball in school," Muscatine said, "because I was trying to get out of my tomboy image. Instead I skied or played tennis, as that was more accepted...
...Pamira--the daughter of the governor of Corinth who is torn between love for her country and love for the Turk King Maometto, her father's enemy. Sills's Pamira was emotionally focused--a earess of Maometto's arm conveyed sexual delight, and one act later a subtly different touch of the sleeve of Neocle, the Greek warrior she's supposed to marry, indicated a dutiful, patriotic love without passion. The libretto is tedious, and often slightly ridiculous--several of the most dance-like arias have the most tragic texts, and Sills pulled off a real feat in making these...