Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foundations of the international guru business. Mehta has an impish eye for the spirit trade; a multinational convocation of celibates meets in Delhi under the motto ROYALTY is PURITY PLUS PERSONALITY; downtown, hundreds of Children of God are demonstrating for the principle of making love for Jesus. A California touch therapist attends a session in an ashram only to discover that his Indian counterparts use 2-ft.-long clubs. The visitor emerges with a broken arm. At a Delhi football stadium the followers of one guru await the miraculous proof of God from their master. His evidence: "God exists because...
With Harvard leading the match 10-7, a 45 minute controversy over a touch had Zivkovic ready to call...
...started to pack up and leave. Just as we were going out the door, the director--who also coaches Brandeis' sabres--reversed his decision, giving us the touch," Zivkovic said. "We came back, but we paid the price...
...interventionist argument crumbles at the touch of logic. What if that quick-strike force had been at our disposal last month--would it have helped President Carter find a way to get the embassy hostage out alive? Would it have cowed the religious fanatics who provoked the crisis? Would it have accomplished anything except to make America look foolish for having spent billions...
...dreadful actor, embarassing when he's not laughing at something or other.) This is where he's been so lucky with Diane Keaton, who's a decent enough actress, and the Diane Keaton role is the soul-unburdening one-this cranks the show up to the touch of seriousness which is needed to vindicate Woody's Indomitable Comic Spirit, so that Time Mag can duly call him America's Comic Genius...