Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other cinematic technique. In the center is the integration: art to convey a message. He places Annie Hall on the narrative content side (he considers the film cinematically inept), and Jaws on the side of good cinematic technique with trivial content. Neither bridges the gap the way Welles' Touch of Evil, superficially seen as a lurid melodrama, does, creating a broader cinematic metaphor. He gives Annie Hall a grade of B-, Jaws a D. So much for my favorite films...
Secondly, unlike his mother, who succeeded when she was 25 and, as the wife of a naval officer, was constantly abroad and not in touch with state affairs, Charles is able to talk with Prime Ministers and ministers with considerable background knowledge. Thus he's gradually gaining experience of a sort none of his recent predecessors...
...former Premier. They were addressed to Italy's top political figures, including Andreotti, Fanfani, Craxi, President Giovanni Leone and Chamber of Deputies President Pietro Ingrao. The blizzard of Moro appeals promptly raised a new mystery: was his family, like those of so many Italian kidnap victims, secretly in touch with the kidnapers? Spokesmen said no. But the letters, like some in the past, were delivered in as yet undisclosed fashion to the family and members of Moro's staff, who then passed them on to the addressees. Moro's three closest aides were called in for questioning...
From his high, sometimes lonely perch, the The Equitable's Coy Eklund Equitable's chief has a unique means of keeping in touch. He has set up three panels of employees-for women, minorites and middle managers-and he meets with each for a long afternoon six times a year answering questions and listening to proposals...
Kazin's portraits of these people are usually thoughtful and affectionate, often with a redeeming touch of asperity. He visits T.S. Eliot and finds "a man easily cornered and deathly afraid of being cornered." Edmund Wilson is presented as an Everest of intelligence, taste and dedication, but Kazin can also write: "His greatest interest in any subject was his learning...