Word: touche
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While $15,000 a year may be an expensive way to enter the community of educated men and women, $15,000 a month to reach out and touch someone is absurd...
Kennedy presented O'Neill with a portrait of "the giant Irish deer--for our dear Irish giant," and praised O'Neill's many achievements over his 17 terms, as a lawmaker and international figure who never lost touch with his constituents in the Eighth Congressional District. Kennedy also said O'Neill "has more good ideas than all the members of Congress...
...read his pages, Toad considered: The whole toad is captured here. L'ecriture, c'est l'homme (Handwriting is the man). Or: L'ecriture c'est le crapaud (Handwriting is the toad). What collectors pay for is the great writer's manuscript, the relic of his actual touch, like a saint's bone or lock of hair. What will we pay in future years for a great writer's computer printouts? All the evidence of his emendations, his confusions and moods, will have vanished into hyperspace, shot there by the Delete...
...case came into my office today," says Aldrich, "I wouldn't touch it." Berg's was one of the last major settlements reached before the California Supreme Court upheld portions of a new law that put a cap on court awards for pain and suffering and on contingency fees. That rule applied to Insurance Salesman Harry Jordan when he sued because surgeons mistakenly removed his healthy left kidney instead of his cancerous right one. Unable to work, he requires eight hours of dialysis three times a week. A jury awarded Jordan $5.2 million, but the cap law compelled the trial...
...have to ask, you are probably still wondering if Jack finally found a way to redeem himself in The Best of Times. But her team is full of genuinely funny fellows, Hawn herself is full of spunky charm, and Director Ritchie has a light and wayward comic touch, so even a hopeless male chauvinist can have a good, instructive time at Wildcats. If there are such things as necessary fairy tales, these movies cheerfully provide them...