Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising that a former master can lose his touch. As Jacobsen says, "the only place you can find foosball tables are college campuses and sleazy bars...
...Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo"? The people of Sarajevo have nonetheless stoically retained their fierce pride in a history rich--that is to say complicated--enough to explain even Princip. It is good, however, to have newer memories, though even recollections of the 1984 Winter Olympics touch on the subject of Princip...
...what color it should be"). To Dent's surprise, earth has somehow escaped destruction, but all the dol phins have mysteriously disappeared. The book's title, in fact, is their farewell message. He sets out to find them, making new friends, notably a lady whose feet do not quite touch the ground, and re-encountering old ones, like Ford Prefect, hard-drinking correspondent for the Hitchhiker's Guide, a 6 million- page Baedeker of the cosmos. Prefect is still updating his entries; for instance, rediscovering a New York City river "so extravagantly polluted that new life forms were emerging from...
Leder will present a lecture on "Misplaced Genes" that will touch on his research as part of the Research Lectures for Non-Specialists series in Science Center B beginning at 8 p.m. tonight...
...themselves as outlanders locked in a battle with legions of old liberal Democratic bureaucrats and bleeding- heart journalists who built Big Government and, in the words of White House Communications Director Pat Buchanan, "haven't been right about an important political issue since John Kennedy. They are out of touch--and frozen...