Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only military defeat. The forgetfulness amounted almost to national amnesia. Two or three years ago, literary agents would tell their writers: "I can sell anything you do, but not about Viet Nam." Except for a foolishly frisky little combat comedy called The Boys in Company C, Hollywood would not touch the war-unless you count John Wayne's 1968 Green Berets, which might as well have been produced by William Westmoreland. As Director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde) put it several years ago, "I don't believe the war in Viet Nam can be treated...
Raffi also hit it well enough to fire in the 70s, but ruined his chances with his "blacksmith" putting touch. After a solid 38 on the front side, the Winchester native three-putted four times on the back side, finishing with...
Dales, who has hit the skids since returning from the squad's Florida roadtrip, scorched to a 38 the front nine, but, like Raffi, he lost his putting touch on the back, taking 46 blows on the final nine...
Begin was in a notably euphoric mood when he reported to a somewhat skeptical Knesset on his latest travels. With a touch of awe in his voice, the Premier declared that "they played the Hatikva [the Israeli national anthem] in Cairo." Shouted right-wing Backbencher Geula Cohen: "They will play it in Amman [Jordan] as well, if you give them Jerusalem!" But the members of parliament were generally appreciative until Begin mentioned the only new agreement to come from the trip: Sadat had agreed that the Israelis could keep a laundry at Kibbutz Neot-Sinai, a mile east...
Frank's healing touch is not bogus but erratic. When his "performance," as he calls it, works, he and the healed are joined in a mystic ecstasy of wholeness...