Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right place at the right time. His frustrations mirrored those of the defeated nation. His anti-Semitism hardened and focused a disease that was then almost pandemic among his bitter, nationalistic countrymen. His vision of a "new" order, disciplined and majestically functional, had in fact just the nostalgic touch that Germans would respond to amid the social and moral chaos of the Weimar Republic...
...rather insulting, now, I suspect, to be shown pictures like the close-up of lovers' hands stretching toward each other and failing to touch as the forecast of Gatsby's and Daisy's ill-fated love; or scenes of Gatsby and Daisy gamboling through sun-dappled gardens spliced with shots of cooing geese as lovers' bliss; and what of the countless times the camera peers through Daisy's diaphonous hatbrim to watch her kissed--stolen kisses? And there is more of this comic strip stuff, too much more. The camera injects twinkling into everybody's eyes--or are the actors...
...gang and that towards Keetchie. For all the liberties he has taken to meet the necessities of the time he has somehow failed in his most essential role, as breadwinner, by getting himself killed. And some measure of Keetchie's ruefulness about it is indicated in a fine touch at the end, when she sits in a railroad station and tells the woman beside her that her husband died of consumption...
Long dependent on the maximum use of his hearing, he has become an expert with the stethoscope. He has even learned by touch alone to perform a tracheotomy, an emergency operation in which a hole is opened in a patient's throat to enable him to breathe. Moreover, he has also retained almost everything he has learned. "I have been forced to remember and use my memory more than most other students," he explains. "It is also important for me to organize things in my mind...
Thomas Jefferson is generally perceived as the philosopher-statesman nonpareil of the infant nation. His accomplishments affect and touch us still. He drafted the Declaration of Independence and championed the Louisiana Purchase. He founded the University of Virginia and built Monticello. Yet Jefferson the man remains an extraordinarily elusive and ambivalent figure. Historian Dumas Malone, one of the most acute Jeffersonists, ruefully wrote: "I flattered myself that some time I would fully comprehend and encompass him. I do not claim that I have yet done so, and I do not believe that I or any other single person...