Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Royal-watchers agree that Charles and hisfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, are the most likelyto issue opinions on many subjects. Thisforthrightness is indicative of the new royalfamily, one which seeks to be less formal and morein touch with the British people...
...Washington's National Gallery and New York City's Metropolitan. The National is represented by its director, Andrew Foster -- young, rich, dashing and secretly a CIA agent. The Met's champion is Olivia Cartwright, whose mentor is the omniscient and fabulously wealthy Neapolitan dwarf Count Nerone (a good Velasquezian touch, since the artist painted a fair number of valuable dwarfs). Rivalry soon leads to attraction, which soon turns into love. Before the hammer finally comes down, love has led to Soviet intrigue, data bases, haute cuisine and unintentionally hilarious dialogue. Says the smitten Olivia to Andrew: "I want...
...perhaps inevitable that Lauren would eventually try his hand in the challenging womenswear market, but his touch proved less sure there. His first tailored shirts for women, in 1971, were a success. Nonetheless, his initial attempt at a full line of womenswear in 1972, inspired partly by British riding clothes, was deemed too unsubtly imitative of menswear lines. Critics were startled and yet intrigued. "A phenomenon to bewilder anthropologists," sniffed The New Yorker...
...annoyance for passengers is a relatively recent change in flight-flow procedures. Instead of letting airliners circle jammed airports waiting to land, the FAA has forbidden them to take off until air controllers are sure that the planes can touch down promptly at their destinations. This saves fuel, which the cost-conscious airlines love, and reduces the sky stack-up, which overworked controllers appreciate. It is also safer, which everyone should admire...
...experience," Marge was saying just before her most recent annual recital. "He won't be playing tonight. He has a lovely touch -- such big hands -- but an audience just destroys him." His only time on the stage, this fellow fell apart. "He stayed here all day practicing. He had a Valium. Then he called the doctor. Then he had three more Valium and two double shots." As show time neared, this musician stepped out the kitchen door to relieve himself. Marge had to stop the proceedings and find him and lead him into the parlor. He played Home...