Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Altman has definite favorites among the pantheon of established directors: Huston, Bergmann, Bertolucci "with his tremendous eye," and Passer ("Intimate Lighting is one of the best movies I've ever seen.") "These are people I can never touch," Altman says...
...issues on which the subcommittees will concentrate reflect a reluctance to handle any "hot potato" issues that would make for any real changes in the University. Only two of the six subcommittees will touch on structural questions...
Lucas Alexander, the doctor who has been Martha's old flame, comes to join her in the Golden Age ghetto, and without a false touch of pathos, Miss Douglas writes a love story as passionate as it is asexual. Old age, she suggests, is a wicked spell cast upon lovers and life lovers, and she stocks her story with appropriate witches and ogres-a Lesbian nurse concealing a record as an abortionist, a nursing-home manager smarmy with greed and Bible-Belt piety...
...last week. The Sting sweep (best picture, best director, best original screenplay, four minor prizes) could have surprised only those who cling to the fantasy that Hollywood's Academicians enjoy rewarding controversy (The Exorcist), truth telling (Cries and Whispers, American Graffiti) or success that is merely modest (A Touch of Class). The best-actor and best-actress choices-Jack Lemmon and Glenda Jackson-were also safe and sane. He is a popular local boy; she is a remote great lady winning her second Oscar in three years. Youth and age were equally served by the selections of ten-year...
...April 13, the Standing Committee, sensitized by the occupation and the Bust, reversed its position on joint-concentration and eliminated the requirement in a revised proposal. But Afro was not to be soothed. The membership concluded that the Standing Committee was "out of touch" with the needs and desires of black students, and on April 14--the day of the Soldiers Field Strike meeting--Afro demanded that the Standing Committee be dissolved and replaced by a new committee composed of equal numbers of students and faculty...