Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to be afraid of snakes, and I wanted to like them," says Sara, explaining why she asked her parents to buy her Honey, a python. Sam, also a snake aficionado, has his two snakes at school because "it's a really neat experience to get to know and touch them...
...institute in general is in the business of bringing people in public life to Harvard," says Charles Truehart, the director of the IOP forum. "It is designed to serve the Kennedy School" by keeping it in touch with the outside world...
...Macon has been forced to confront his own restlessness. Sitting in a hotel room, the world-weary traveller idly muses on the idea of calling his next book "The Accidental Tourist At Home." At one point, in lonely desperation, he considers faking a coronary just to feel the soothing touch of a human hand. Tyler's complex ironies offer no easy solution to the quest for home. Rather than bringing him neatly full circle back to familiar territory, Macon's odyssey leaves him in Oz. It is in this world of peculiar intimacies, where strangers become family and families remain...
...meantime, the U.S. efforts on behalf of the other Americans remain shrouded in secrecy. Kalb would say only that the U.S. "is now, has been and will continue to be in touch with numerous individuals and governments in an effort to obtain their release." President Reagan was vague too, but he indicated that the U.S. was taking what steps it could. "Unfortunately," said he, "we can't tell even the families (of the other hostages) all that we are doing...
...Washington's mall. By the end, the festival will have involved some 500 events in 90 cities in 36 states and ranged from displays of sculpture in Cleveland and calligraphy in Iowa City, Iowa, to a demonstration of ancient and modern Indian science in Charlotte, N.C. Some events touch directly on politics: California State University at Long Beach will hold a seminar on the centenary of India's National Congress, forerunner of India's ruling Congress (I) Party. The estimated total cost: $15 million, $5 million from the Indian government, the remainder from U.S. institutions...