Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obviously Stallion's Gate is not meant to be taken too literally. There is a touch of the folk hero about Pena as he moves across the New Mexican landscape. A conscious stylist, Smith relies strongly on emotional echoes and calibrated suspense. He also seems keenly aware of his story's film potential. No producer will be confused by the tense hunting scene, the Indian dance that mocks the white man's efforts to saddle atomic energy, the Rocky-like prizefight that pits Pena against a younger opponent, an eerie trip with a radioactive cargo, and a climactic battle...
...this world it's very scary to be open and vulnerable . . ." and "Finally, I have a friend I can trust . . . completely!" So far the genre has no name -- call it the emotionally expressive component of the nonoccasion card market. But under such brand names as Soft Sentiments and Personal Touch, cards retailing love, heartache and other real-life, prepackaged emotions are among the hottest products in the industry. "The style today is openness and honesty," says Larry Barnett, founder of Carolyn Bean, a San Francisco card company. Barnett says he has seen women buying emotional cards in bunches, building...
...used, as well as the goals and possible consequences. Then came the long, tension-filled wait. Contingency plans were made to update the story if the attack came later on Sunday. Duffy had judged that the raid would not come over the weekend but nonetheless stayed in touch with his contacts by phone...
...Brotherhood closes in, Magnus sets the crooked record straight, or as straight as possible under the circumstances. There is much here about the routines of spying: keeping in touch with your "Joes," the odd assortment of informants who provide trade figures, truck movements and the seemingly meaningless details that may or may not add up to something back at the Firm's headquarters. Magnus' operations take him to Vienna, Prague and Washington, where he concludes that "no country was ever easier to spy on . . . no nation so open-hearted with its secrets, so quick to air them, share them, confide...
NATURALLY, JACK FEELS pretty awful about the whole thing, seeing as it was his fault that Lilly ever got to touch the now stiffening unicorn in the first place. So with the help of a somewhat lustful fairy queen, the forest knave acquires the requisite set of used armor and hauls his butt over to a humungous oak tree, which serves as Evil's headquarters. His main goal is to save his girlfriend and the last remaining unicorn in the universe, both of which have been captured by the forces of darkness. If he fails, the sun will never rise...