Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wichita has 15 cases of fine wine, and no one can yet touch a drop...
...Touch...
...student-faculty committees have proved ineffectual in this area. Their small numbers of students cannot possibly keep in touch with the entire student body, and their effectiveness as independent organs for the expression of student opinion is undermined by the faculty-administration majorities on each committee. The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) student caucus's unanimous endorsement of the proposed constitution speaks to all of these points...
...marvelous. These are Corybants who might have flocked in the pagan train of Cybele. Nonetheless, apart from Ann Reinking and probably Wayne Cilento, the dancers seem locked into Fosse's drillmaster perfectionism so that they cannot break out to those moments of individuality and felt emotion that might touch an audience's heart in addition to compelling its admiration...
Once blessed by luck in almost every business enterprise, the Guggenheims later lost their magical touch. The family story was like the Rothschilds' in reverse: a third-generation Guggenheim, M. Robert, distinguished himself as Ambassador to Portugal by flipping a spoon down a guest's cleavage at a state dinner, then attempting to fish it out. Lisbon declared him persona non grata. Many lost all purpose, several died young, and a disproportionate number committed suicide. Simon's son George, for instance, bought a big-game rifle at Abercrombie & Fitch, checked into a hotel, and shot himself...