Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stage is split by the audience which is seated at nightclub tables, a nice touch along with the intimate lighting. On one side of Cabot's dining room stands the bate setting of Cliff's room (which is soon shared by Sally) and his landlady's chambers, the dancing girls and the menacing demeanor of the Master of Ceremonies face opposite. But what occurs on this stage tails to reach its full potential because the song and dance numbers are, with some redeeming exceptions, ordinary. The pleasing, while not terribly strenuous, choreography is simply not performed with a consistent amount...
...energetic curator of Harvard's Farnsworth and Woodberry Poetry Rooms at Lamont Library. Haviaras says he feels most closely in touch with his "life-fluids" at night, when he prefers to write. For years he has been filling his spare hours writing poetry and fiction, and this month Simon and Schuster published his second English novel. The Heroic...
...state chairman, Pouland has helped place operatives in the half of the state's 6,600 precincts that contains 90% of the vote. They are concentrating especially on sprawling West Texas, where, says Pouland, "anti-Mondale feeling is pretty strong." Hart wants to revive his New Hampshire touch by warming up to voters through small, personal meetings, a difficult task for a shy, cool man, and by stressing his independence from special interests. At a barbecue last week in Amarillo, Hart did his best, enthusiastically shaking hands with an 8-ft. cowboy on stilts and boldly declaring, "America needs...
...Hewlett-Packard may finally be finding its touch with personal computers. Next month it will introduce a battery-operated portable computer, code-named Nomad, that will weigh 8.5 Ibs. and sell for $3,000. Industry insiders are excited about the machine, which has a tilt-up flat screen and built-in software including the industry's current hit, Lotus 1-2-3, a business planning program that also produces graphs. The computer has twice the memory of Apple's hot-selling Macintosh, and is designed to connect to the IBM Personal Computer as well as to Hewlett-Packard...
...course, the Columbia University professor has to take a few digs at Harvard. Cambridge City cop Pete Grandeville notes early on that "there was at least one French Canadian from North Cambridge who had a touch of class and a Harvard-caliber brain." "Since Pete had not been expecting to leave the tense intellectual environment of Harvard all day, he was delighted to encounter someone who was both relaxed and willing to tell him interesting things," the author remarks later. Columbia University is significantly absent from the novel...