Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once he is ready to launch the final takeover battle, Pickens sets up a command post at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria or Helmsley Palace hotels. From there, he directs the action like a general, keeping in round-the-clock touch with allies and moneymen across the country. "He's incredibly well plugged in," says a Wall Street financier. "One of his great strengths is that he has more sources than anyone." Notes an investment banker: "He's an absolutely brilliant poker player, though there's a little chess in his game...
Professor Kilson demonstrates how out of touch he is with Black students, both at Harvard Radcliffe and around the country, Harvard Radcliffe and around the country. He fails to realize that Black students who sing in Kuumba gospel concerts, participate in Association of Black Radcliffe Women cultural show, organic classes in Swahili, or perform plays with Black C.A.S.T.-enrich the cultural and social life of the entire University. These students help educate as to the fact that the university, like the real world, is great quilt of diverse patterns and colors, held together by the common thread of the learning...
...regular" shows will run for seven weeks, starting with Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard," which opened last night. The season's offerings include more notable "firsts," such as a weekend of staged readings of original student works and the combination of two shorter plays--Shepard's "Savage Love" and "Touch and Cage Games" by Bradley K. Marshall '85 which address similar themes...
...over three decades. Then Butts' wife died, and the widower, who is a retired architect, found that even his own creation was no consolation since at least two people are required to play. So he went back to the tile board to see if he still had the magic touch. The result is called, appropriately, Alfred's Other Game. Related to Scrabble, though not quite zygomorphically (40 points in the original, 55 in the new), A.O.G. can be played alone or with company, "sort of simultaneous solitaire," Butts explains. Meanwhile, thanks to a vigorous promotion campaign, Butts, 85, suddenly...
Radcliffe rowers, facing touch competition in the finals, captured fourth place in both the open and lightweight divisions with solid pieces by Alison Lownley (9:36.3) and Nina Streeter (9:53.0), Novice oarswoman) Jenny Rudolph ground out the race in just over 10 minutes for sixth place...