Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homes and watch as well as participate in conventions," says Leo Bonardi, Hilton's eastern regional director of sales. "But to my way of thinking, electronics will never replace the face-to-face meeting or the experience of traveling." Adds Peachtree Plaza's Bill Moyer: "People want the human touch...
Normally Reese bamboozles opponents with his deft touch in negotiating the angles of Hemenway. Yesterday, however, the courts were hotter than usual and the heat produced a livelier, bouncier ball. Reese and the rest of the racquetmen therefore had difficulties in making finesse shots die off the side walls but they soon adjusted to the longer rallies...
...heads." Still, from some of Teng's cryptic phrases, China experts speculated that the murky struggles within the party leadership would be carried forward to a meeting of the 201-member Central Committee later this month. That event-unless Teng and his colleagues decided that a little touch of democracy was enough for the moment -could well inspire another campaign of wall posters as guides to popular thinking...
...their sales are rung up between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when men indulge their women and women indulge themselves. Tis the season when department-store cosmetics counters are jammed and the air redolent of thousands of mixed scents as women spray themselves with a bit of this and a touch of that. Men's eyes are often struck by the sight of a woman daubing lipstick onto her hand to get a better idea of the shade?and leaving five or six stripes of what looks like war paint...
...intent on complicating the plot, Prewitt cuts through the lethargy of the first scenes with an energetic and mischievious performance. Michael Bierer as the blustering, bureaucratic mayor Hebble Tyson leans toward exaggeration in comparison with other characters, but his haughty huffing and sorrowful snorting lend a badly needed comic touch to scenes which would otherwise fall flat...