Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That night, as the three men in the commander's escort lie in their blankets, the stars so close you could touch them with your toes, a soldier named Mohammed says proudly, "I've been at war for five years. Sometimes I've had to sleep five nights in a row with rotting corpses." Is he afraid of dying? "Of course not," he says. "If I were, I wouldn't be in the army." While most of his comrades carry lucky charms, Mohammed wears only an empty 9-mm shell casing around his neck...
Despite the superpower chill, a Soviet satellite stays in touch with the West...
...page comic book Spider-Man and Power Pack was produced by the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse with the cooperation of Marvel Comics. Lindsay Wagner is one of the performers in Touch, a 32-minute film to be shown on Minneapolis television May 1. Touch, which has been performed nationally as a play for four years, is the creation of the Minneapolis Illusion Theater, a group that specializes in dramas about child abuse. Among its skits are stories about a baby-sitter who tricks a child into disrobing and a man who fondles his granddaughter...
...Lagerfeld's collection so much that there are already plans to "get behind it" in five of the chain's 15 stores. Perse of Maxfield liked it too, but the Lagerfeld company's insistence on a minimum order of $50,000 cooled his enthusiasm just a touch, especially since his customers go for the less striated styling of Miyake and Yamamoto...
...tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000. Says Gates in his characteristic computerspeak: "I was a hard-core tech-Is noid." He temporarily abandoned computers for a year in the early 1970s for such nontechnical pursuits as acting in the school play, but he did not lose his touch for making money. While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped up 5,000 McGovern-Eagleton campaign buttons for a nickel each just after South Dakota's George McGovern dumped Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton from the Democratic ticket. They later sold the scarce...