Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrong for The Crimson to have preconceived notions about the likely opinions of the Harvard Republican Club's broadly based membership of two hundred undergraduates. The club is a group on campus supporting mainstream political ideas, apparently far more in touch with the country's convictions than some supposedly objective journalists at Harvard. The Crimson's characterization of my opinions is erroneous, and the RUS is doing a good service in promoting thoughtful discussion of this emotional issue whether or not the so-called "pro-life view is also represented." Mark P. Lagon...
...Gary Hart and New York Governor Mario Cuomo, is among the most plausible contenders for the 1988 Democratic nomination. During January and February alone, Iacocca was asked by 1,270 different groups to give speeches. Out on the street in any city, strangers approach to stare, to chat, to touch, as if he were a star or something...
...exposure over the past five years. In all, Iacocca's 30-second spots have reached 97% of American households an average of 63 times apiece. But even that sustained barrage of television visibility was only a prerequisite for Iacocca's popularity, not its ultimate cause: he had to touch nerves. "We didn't invent Lee Iacocca," says Kelmenson. "We couldn't have. We just communicated the Lee Iacocca persona to the American public...
...slight Daffy Duck lisp comes and goes, and provides an affecting touch of vulnerability. He works the audience, improvising. On some occasions he will begin slowly, reading straight from a prepared typescript. But then, eager to give his measured words emphasis, he starts his right hand stirring the air in tight counterclockwise loops. And before long, like one of his new turbocharged cars, he revs up and zooms off, quoting himself, zigzagging between '60s idiom ("flip out," "bummer") and mild profanity, tossing away irreverent asides like empty beer cans. Hyperbole comes naturally, and repeatedly: to the analysts in Detroit...
...took Marjorie Morningstar some 400 pages to lose her virginity. Davey Goodkind needs 500 and a chapter titled "Consummation." There is a touch of self-mockery in this, though Goodkind's long-windedness leaves little doubt of his underlying self-importance. He appears modest about his role in Government but leaves the impression that he was decisive in securing U.S. aid for Israel during the October War. His on-again-off-again affair with a Gentile show girl is elevated to a grand romantic passion when all the evidence suggests that our hero was merely having a good time before...