Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hippo, giraffe, elephant and camel-sculpted in glossy English ivy-recall the playful conceits of Pliny's Rome. The American Desert House is studded with 100 kinds of desert plants, including a 20-ft. saguaro cactus. Children may prowl the Greenmuse, a special section with a "please touch" policy to give city kids an acquaintance with the look and feel of real corn and tomato plants. Beneath the conservatory, in the Green-school, they will also be able to study plants and seeds with microscopes...
...Currier House production of Ten Little Indians fulfills these prerequisites, with a few glaring exceptions. The play is staged in the "Fishbowl," Currier's large glass-enclosed room, and the set effectively uses the Fishbowl's starkness and airiness to simulate the atmosphere of a deserted island. One imaginative touch is the set's use of the exit doors. David Reiffel, the set designer and the co-director, drapes a sheet outside the exit door and shines a soft blue light on it, evoking the idea of a terrace overlooking...
Coach Stephanie Walsh said yesterday she felt the two new captains would keep her in close touch with her swimmers...
...staff over matters of union policy. There is no wistful feeling for the days of the corrupt Tony Boyle; and it is not the influx of too much democracy into the union, as some observers have suggested, but a simple feeling that perhaps Arnold Miller has lost touch with the membership...
There is another analogy to Hitchcock. In entertainment after entertainment he has shown, through his spies and criminals, how pervasive evil is in the world, how it can reach out and touch the most innocent places and people and make real the paranoia that so many people seem to feel. The Fury invites the audience to take pleasure in the revenge of those who are exceptional, in their final, violent turning against the straight world. One suspects that telepathic characters are artist-figures to De Palma, that conceivably, in his dealings with Hollywood producers, he has wished on occasion...