Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter's presidency has become very personal. His face-to-face success at Camp David gave the demand for his presence an immeasurable stimulus. Now almost every issue and dispute that is not routine is carried to the White House in search of Carter's healing touch. It may be the best or the worst thing that has happened to him-no one is sure just yet. Last week he was hurrying around Washington in his limousine, jumping in and out of his tuxedo, shuffling speech texts and telephone receivers in a dramatic display of personal political...
Keith Jarrett: Sun Bear Concerts (ECM/Warners). Improvised fantasies by the soaring lyricist of the jazz piano. A ten-record set, beautiful and exacting and a touch toplofty by turns, stunningly pack aged to grace the coffee table while the records do their duty on the turntable...
...leaves millions of Frenchwomen à bout de souffle. In Flic ou Voyou, Belmondo's latest film, he plays a cop disguised as a gangster and gets entangled in fistfights. In more civilized moments off the set, Belmondo brushes up on his tennis. Even a nonsex symbol needs a touch of love...
...this exploration. In effect, he puts on black face and tap dances with breathtaking agility and grace through the contradictions of culture clash and leadership in a revolutionary African nation. The mythic Islamic country of Kush resembles France's former real estate in West Africa, with a touch of Haile Selassie's Ethiopia...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art. There may not be much wrong with such knick-knacks-as long as they don't become substitutes, in people's minds, for the real thing. Mechanical reproduction clumsily mimics but cannot replace the intimate spontaneity and directness of an artist's touch. The clone trade is to real art and its audience what Franklin Mint medals are to numismatists, or vinyl-morocco Great Books to bibliophiles...