Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's Why I'm Here is no earth shaker, but it's pure James. The album commences with the title song, in which, after a brief guitar solo, Taylor sings: "Person to person and man to man, I'm back in touch with a long, lost friend." Having deprived his fans of new material for nearly five years, he couldn't have summed up their feelings more accurately...
...physical surroundings go beyond the merely functional. Several clubs have in fact taken on established artists such as Andy Warhol to give the clubs' interior a highly self-conscious artistic touch. Mury puts it succinctly: "Art becomes nightlife and nightlife becomes...
...With the deft touch of political prestidigitators, Italian party leaders last week made a government crisis disappear as if it had never happened. Two weeks after Prime Minister Bettino Craxi had marched up Rome's Quirinal Hill to present his resignation to Italy's President Francesco Cossiga over his handling of the Achille Lauro hijacking, Craxi returned to reclaim his place as leader of his five-party ruling coalition. The President and the four other coalition partners decided to consider Craxi's resignation provisional, thereby allowing the same government with the same policies to continue. After an expected vote...
While at the studio, Murdoch works in his shirt-sleeves in a modest temporary office whose only personal touch is a photo of his wife. He spends much of his time conferring with bankers and lawyers, and meets daily with Diller, sometimes for lunch in the Fox commissary. Murdoch also occasionally picks up a yellow legal pad and drops in on a creative session in which Diller and his top lieutenants discuss TV and movie ideas. "Rupert is very quiet in these meetings," one participant reports. "He might ask, 'How much does that cost?' or, 'What does that mean?' Sometimes...
Cable executives insist that their series are different from network fare, in many cases more daring in language and subject matter. Usually that simply means a gratuitous glimpse of skin here, an expletive undeleted there. Brothers' treatment of homosexuality, for example, is a touch more explicit than ABC or CBS might allow. Yet in most ways the show is indistinguishable from a typical Norman Lear sitcom of the mid-1970s...