Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those plans changed in a hurry Saturday when neither Joe nor the Four Guards could find their touch against a Dartmouth club Harvard manhandled, 73-58, earlier this year in Hanover...
...movie by Australian Actress Judy Davis, Adela is dull at first glance but with a wild surmise glowing in her eyes, her gestures half formed, alternately acknowledging and denying the curious new telegraphy that India is dot-dashing through her ganglia. She will have her adventure! She will touch, as the Anglo-Indians keep refusing to, Indian reality! And she will do so despite the warnings of her fiancé (Nigel Havers, who does the impossible by making priggishness sympathetic...
...beginning works seem adolescent, that may be because Garcia Márquez was only 19 when the first story, The Third Resignation, was published in 1947. It is a derivative exercise in the macabre and surrealistic, enlivened with a touch of humor. A boy overhears a doctor conferring with his mother: "Madam, your child has a grave illness: he is dead." The ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry sweep through these early tales, the fear of being buried alive confirmed or denied through trick endings...
...ectoplasmic emanations in these first stories badly need a touch of the humdrum, some ballast of reality not perceived as nightmare or dream. In The Woman Who Came at Six O'Clock (1950), Garcia Márquez adopts an entirely new voice. Chiefly through dialogue, he turns what has been the daily routine between a prostitute and the owner of the restaurant she frequents into a collision of moral and life-and-death choices. If this stark story suggests the influence of Hemingway, the next one announces the sway of William Faulkner. Nabo: The Black Man Who Made...
...thing is, Cousy says, "I shoot better now than I did 30 years ago," which he has occasion to know, for last week he started shooting again. "Of course, if I have to run five feet to get my own rebound, my touch deteriorates accordingly." At 7 o'clock in the morning, he lets himself into the Assumption College gymnasium about a quarter mile from his home in Worcester, Mass. Why Cousy has returned to the court at 56 he finds embarrassing to say, confessing to having made "a conscious decision never to play in oldtimers' games...