Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshness too. The blooms of roses, petunias and daisies show through the twilight. Fireflies and children burst from leafy caverns. A look into the barn shows that it stables a red Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Far off, thunderheads pile up over the Missouri River, and then ringers of coolness touch the broad leaves of the linden tree overhead...
...role made Elizabeth Taylor a star at 12. Now Tatum O'Neal is the one with the Velvet touch. The sequel to National Velvet, ecumenically titled International Velvet, premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center last week. Tatum, sweet 14 and dressed to kill in a silk suit and spike-heeled sandals, was fetchingly on hand. "I didn't even want to become an actress," she confessed. "It just sort of happened...
...became familiar with the chain-smoking figure in a trench coat, fatefully evocative of Bogart and Yves Montand. Much was made of his celebrated statement that in a purposeless world the only vital question was one of suicide. His novels The Stranger and The Fall describe souls out of touch with a moral landscape; The Plague watches townspeople succumb to a literal and spiritual disease. It is small wonder that at his death Camus seemed the spokesman of despairing existentialism, a cinematic figure as doom-ridden as any of his characters...
That resides in her talent, perhaps un rivaled among sculptors of her generation, for creating icons of touch, for making apparent the feelings of the body through sculptural form. She is a completely erotic sculptor. Nearly everything in the flow of her forms, their smoothness, their open disjunctures, their oneiric self-sufficiency, partakes of sexual feeling. It does so without a trace of violence or condescension...
...Kissinger's private comment accurately is to provide valuable information. Reston's real problem is that like most other columnists, he writes too often. On the days when he has nothing special to say, his complacent commentaries suggest a comfortable Virginia squire more than someone in touch with agonizing concerns...