Word: touche
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Elsewhere the touch is surer. Blessed with an extraordinarily vivid Mime in Dutch Tenor Hubert Delamboye, Rochaix gives the conniving dwarf free rein, particularly in Siegfried, where his exchanges with the sturdy Siegfried (American Heldentenor Edward Sooter) have a sharp, often humorous bite. And having Siegfried relate his wooing of Brunnhilde directly to Gunther near the end of Gotterdammerung gives the innocent Siegfried's ensuing murder a special poignancy...
Georgi Grechko, the Soviet cosmonaut whose three trips into space have made him a national hero, was at it again. Grechko is a natural when it comes to pleasing a crowd, more than willing to press the flesh and fortified with a broad, kind smile that adds a human touch to his celebrity status. Here he was in fine form again, but on this humid summer evening, in spite of the cheers and waves, the crowd didn't know Grechko from any of the other people he was with. After all, this wasn't Red Square but Red Wing, Minn...
Numbers are slippery, partly because hobbyists who specialize, say, in the Revolutionary War have no reason to keep in close touch with Civil warriors. But some 50,000 people, many of them women and children, may be involved in relighting the old campfires and refighting the old battles. Some spend thousands of dollars on their costumes and weapons, and a rueful joke among re-enactors is that their 18th or 19th century wardrobes are far more elaborate than their present-day clothes...
...throwing the bomb on fourth and long, the U.S.F.L. switched seasons to go head to head this fall with the N.F.L. The networks, however, were not buying. ABC did not renew. NBC and CBS, which, like ABC, have a five-year contract to rotate N.F.L. coverage, also would not touch the struggling league...
...Appalachia and soon-to-be-startedBangladesh internship programs are the first ODNprojects to directly supervise on-site studentpublic service work. In the past, ODN has only putstudents in touch with the groups...