Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part of himself," Sheedy says. It's a golden touch. Who wouldn't grab the chance to remake one's adolescence, in which the geek in one's closet now has the swagger of fearless charm, and a rock symphony swells in the parking lot on prom...
Fate interceded again several minutes later when Olajuwon tried to start a skirmish of his own. With 5:12 remaining in the game, Olajuwon went after Mitch Kupchak, another Laker known more for his elbowing then his fine shooting touch...
...juggle a child in one hand and a career in the other can hardly be blamed for feeling a touch of envy toward their fathers, whose role as sole breadwinner entitled them to dinner on the table and uninterrupted sleep at night. "We can't be pioneers without looking wistfully over our shoulders at jobs that seemed easier, when career paths were clear, when women were subservient, when men could commandeer the heights of established power," says Reich with a wry grin. "There is some real tension in our generation over this phenomenon...
American Greetings' In Touch line has the bluntest, quirkiest of the cards, including a sincere but somewhat wimpy message from a jilted lover ("Everyone tells me I'll get over it . . . but how could they ever begin to know how much I loved you?"), a modified zinger to get a friend to back off ("I want to please you, but first I have to please myself"), and a cryptic note aimed at intimates who apparently intend to conduct the rest of their relationship over the phone ("More than anything, it's the eye contact I'll miss...
...Touch cards, published last month in a 55 million-card first printing, were written by David Viscott, a radio therapist and author (The Making of a Psychiatrist). "This is really America in therapy," he says, "people trying to get themselves together and be whole." Like many other writers of emotional cards, Viscott sometimes seems to be cannibalizing old song lyrics and old movie scripts ("Nobody does it better"; "No matter what happens, we always have us"), but he is willing to tackle unusual subjects like insecurity in the office. One such message -- "Your efficiency sometimes scares the hell...