Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer lies primarily in the plot, which holds quite a few unconventional twists. This almost schizophrenic novel simply cannot decide whether it is a psychological drama of a woman's awakening to her own potential, or a slick, fast-paced, murder-and-arson thriller In trying to touch both bases. Piercy has had to sacrifice many of the best elements of either genre...
...added that they wanted to see how a number of new laws regulating working conditions had affected Cuban women and "perhaps touch on some touchy areas such as gay rights...
...organizers, "You should have told me!" Shamir had better luck at a branch of Bank Leumi in Givatayim, where several dozen customers clustered around him. "Tell your clientele," he said to the bank's manager, "that they should not worry about their savings. We will secure them and never touch them...
...completely waned: when Deputy Prime Minister David Levy considered challenging Yitzhak Shamir for the Herut Party nomination, Begin's son called Levy, presumably at his father's request, and urged him to withdraw. Levy did. The master politician may have given up his job, but not his touch...
Many hardball hosts maintain that they alone touch the real concerns of their audience. Warren Freiberg, a conservative who conducts a call-in show on WLNR in Lansing, 111., says that his straight talk is welcomed by people who are unmoved by "the educated media, the Walter Cronkites and Dan Rathers of the world." But other broadcasters disagree...