Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been an enduring act of faith for all Presidents since Franklin Roosevelt that somewhere within their Soviet counterparts is the same human stuff they possess and that if they can touch it, there will follow some understanding. They write letters and wait. Mostly they are disappointed. The replies are boilerplate committee jargon. Roosevelt did a little better with Stalin because they were allied in a great war. But Harry Truman, who sort of liked "old Joe" after Potsdam and tried to make him a pen pal, soon found there was not enough of a relationship to discourage Stalin from trying...
...layered memories of conversation, sexual tension and private jokes. But this is conveyed by an extraordinary blooming, spotting, bumbling and streaking of color, an irradiation of the mildly anecdotal by the aggressively visual. The small size of Hodgkin's canvases puts a high premium on their quality of touch (which rarely falters), but the color counts most...
...Pittura Colta go far beyond, or below, De Chirico's fussy homages to Rubens, Titian or Fragonard. Its exponents, such as Carlo Maria Mariani, Stefano di Stasio or Omar Galliani, never use such "warm" sources. As shown by Mariani's Ercole che Riposa, they prefer the cold touch of marble and the frigid contortions of mannerism. Their dream of beauty is a simpering Apollo or a Big Daddy Hercules surrounded by Ganymedes with pearlescent teeth, all in a Roman campagna done from slides-the love among the ruins that dares not speak its name...
...even way up there at the top where the air is thin, Rubén Blades would seem a rare, highflying creature. His songs have not only rhythms that insinuate but lyrics that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella...
...cries, striving to locate defining links between himself and the world as he feverishly scans the political news in the paper or tries to make sense of the post-Freudian gabble of his friends. Distracted, he abuses emotional ties that are so close at hand he could touch them were he only to reach out. His best friends have simplified these problems: tough Phil (Harvey Keitel) makes most of his conjunctions with his fists; Artie (Jerry Stiller) is hooked into the only thing that matters to him, his career, via his answering machine; Mickey (Christopher Walken) simply accepts...