Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when collectors refused to touch his current work but scrambled for any pre-1920 De Chirico, he began to repeat his own early work. The market for De Chiricos became hopelessly snarled in disputes over authenticity, between fake De Chiricos painted by others, the copies he painted himself, and the real pre-1920 canvases. He took a sardonic relish in that. It was his revenge on an art world that he regarded as corrupt from first to last. Nevertheless, nothing would stop him from painting. He was, at the last, a model of misapplied industry. But the young De Chirico...
...could have played a little better, but I can't complain too much about such a solid win," coach Paul Moses said after the match. "We had a touch of early-season nerves," he added...
...there was a real problem with the leases. We felt there was a gross violation of trust responsibility on the part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in signing and approving those leases which have essentially created islands in the Navajo nation which the tribe cannot touch...
Fleming once again came off the bench to shake things up, but this time his shooting touch had gone cold, and most of his shots from the field went wide of the mark...
Peters, a quick junior from Southbridge, Mass., with a nice shooting touch, drew first blood for UMass with a 12-ft. jumper from the right side just seconds into the contest. Curry and tiny sophomore guard Lisa Bernstein answered with successive jumpers from the left side, and Harvard had its only lead of the game...