Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nutcracker who addresses his lady in "a little bell like voice: Dear sweet Marie. Protectress mine. Thou standest by me and I'll be thine." And within the bizarre tale of Marie's adventures, Hoffmann revels in the sweetness and sensitivity of kind and imaginative children. His careful touch in relating the wonders of things as majestic as first love is something akin to a perfectly crafted music boy issuing soft strains of Mozart...
...Captain Bob Ferry was also deadly--fourth in the nation--from the foul line, but this year he'll need to find the touch from the floor that was his trademark his first two years here...
...Sidey will look at the popular vote, he will see that the out-of-touch "elite" he describes as favoring Mondale numbered in the millions. We voted for Mondale and Ferraro because they were intelligent, honorable, patriotic candidates...
...shadowy ascension of Jesus into heaven. But Bernard's eclectic and refreshing selection presents many other visions, some quite surprising. The 19th century American Thomas Cole grandly evokes the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden; old sobersides Albrecht Dürer brings a light-hearted touch to, of all things, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and John Martin, a 19th century Englishman with a 20th Century-Fox mind, offers a Cinemascopic Belshazzar's Feast that obviously showed Hollywood the epic handwriting on the wall...
...young country and on the evidence of this book reached its zenith among the Pennsylvania Germans. The new immigrants painted their bright, elaborate designs on pottery and furniture, inked them on love letters, and even incorporated them into birth certificates. Amid these ebullient displays, the text is just a touch too scholarly, but throughout, the authors' hearts are in all the right places...