Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wolfgang Vogel negotiated the exchange of Powers for Abel in 1962. This is inaccurate. The negotiations were begun by James B. Donovan, the lawyer who had defended Abel in court and had kept in touch with him in prison. Constantly keeping in touch with me, he carried on a subtle correspondence with "Mrs. Abel," leading up to a series of meetings in East Berlin with a KGB colonel with whom the terms of the exchange were agreed upon. Vogel came into the picture in connection with two American students who had been held in East Germany and were released...
...Saudi drive also included full-page ads in U.S. newspapers, glossy multipage displays in magazines and 15-page memos sent to all Senators to explain just why Saudi Arabia wanted the F-15s. On the day of the vote Cook got in touch with some 200 influential businessmen and asked them to telephone Senators they thought might still be undecided...
...raising his profile through philanthropy-he offered his mansion to the city for use as a school, his money to the symphony-were thwarted. Still refusing to be satisfied as the prince of pornography, Thevis bought one of the finest recording studios in the South and tried his touch out on Hollywood's biggest pinball machine-the movie business. Tilt, game over; score no points for bravado. Mike Thevis got no respect...
Cauthen tries to explain: "It's in the hands. Your hands are how you communicate with the horse. When you're setting down on the final drive, that's how you keep in touch with him. Some jocks can communicate with horses better than others. The horses sense it through the hands." He pauses and then shrugs: "Who knows how they sense it?" Cauthen admits that horses seem to remember him not by sight but when they feel him in the saddle and the touch of his man-size hands on the reins. Paddock punters watch with amazement as colts...
Thus, Madame Nadine is superficial from the start. Viewed from one angle, it makes the movie hard to believe. Who would walk up to a poorly-dressed Arab boy, touch his cheek and ask him why he is crying? Who would tape his heart-rending tale and then let him get up and run away? It isn't plausible, especially if Madame Nadine is supposed to care for Momo as much as she seems to. But, that's just the point. Not only is she using him for her own pleasure, to look at, and for her own uses...