Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead on the individual and organizational side of politics. He does not minimize the role of TV in modern campaigning, but in an age when bigness and bureaucracy seem to stifle individual effort, it is a comfort to find O'Brien still preaching the practicality of the personal touch. From the habit of using a "guest book" at political receptions (begun as a way to compile mailing lists at Jack Kennedy coffee hours in 1952), O'Brien's accent has been on candor and grass-roots contact. He argues that within reason, plain talk is good politics...
...post-Rudolf Bing era. Chapin has even brought in Choreographer George Balanchine to stage a coolly graceful polonaise. Ming Cho Lee, 44, responsible for so many splendid New York City Opera sets (Giulio Cesare, Don Rodrigo), makes his Met debut with a masterly series of designs that not only touch the eyes but also move the drama forward virtually without pause. Lee's contrasts are myriad. The rough outer walls of Moscow do not prepare one for the tapestried, iconic splendor of the Kremlin rooms. After the gold, be-crossed minarets of old Russia, the Renaissance fashion (all blues...
...package of reductions aimed at offering relief to lower-and middle-income families and repeal of corporate tax privileges and various tax shelters that they believe serve no social purpose. Most members of TIME'S Board of Economists fear that combining tax reduction with tax reform would touch off a long, hot debate that would slow enactment of a quickly needed...
Greene's text is a touch parodic and patronizing, but Edward Ardizzone's marvelous new pen and ink and watercolor washes use the soft hues of Thomas Rowlandson to celebrate a detailed affection for Little Snoreing and its inhabitants...
...Yosemite and the Sierras, his close-up studies of wood, rock and plants and sometimes people have been repeatedly and justly praised. The purity, directness and technical excellence of his pictures attest to Adams' belief that "a photograph is made, not taken." Yet there is also a touch of the mystic naturalist in Adams when he notes, "Sometimes, I think, I do get to places just when God is ready to have somebody click the shutter...