Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal adviser, abruptly left Grenada after attacking the Governor-General as "quite unfit" to help restore democracy to the island. The leaders of Grenada's nine-member interim advisory council, which will administer the country until elections can be held, admit that they may be dangerously out of touch with some of their poorer countrymen who benefited from Bishop's rule. "The revolution's skills were 90% political," says one council member. "Ours are 90% administrative. It's not an easy transition...
...label Scotch. Thirty-two-year-old lawyers who had just made partner inflated huge helium balloons, tied them to their cars with ropes hundreds of feet long, and then stood there grinning and drinking. Fifty-year-old business honchos got mud on the knees of their gray flannels playing touch football among the parked cars and joshed one another loudly about bifocals and bald spots. The older wives wore mink, and the younger wives wore ski sweaters and down vests. They helped with the elaborate tailgate picnics everyone brought, but otherwise stood somewhat aside from the gamboling with their plastic...
...expressed in gleeful, even vengeful terms. Further, many of the more thoughtful respondents seemed to reach beyond the battlefield issue to reflect deep, far-ranging resentment of the press. Linda Warren of West Hollywood, Calif., wrote to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner: "Journalists are so out of touch with majority values, such as honor, duty and service to country, that they are alienated from the very society that they purport to serve." Duane Bloom of Golden, Colo., argued in a letter to the Denver Post: "The media have frequently misused sensitive and explosive events as opportunities for personal glory...
...unnamed sources. At best, reporters may subject themselves to manipulation by a person who passes on information for his own motives; at worst, readers suspect that the anonymous source may not exist. In some cases, reporters seem to feel that using a "deep throat" lends a touch of glamour-a signal that they are in the know. Relying on unnamed sources is often necessary. Most major publications, including TIME, get background information at official briefings or through interviews of behind-the-scenes participants. In such cases, the source justifiably insists on anonymity. "The alternative...
...same set. Most of the dramatic tension, then, resides in the blocking, since both actors must studiously maintain the illusion of solitude while barely avoiding coliisions. The setup also gives the directors a concrete metaphor for the songs' philosophizing: when the characters notice each other at all, when they touch, the show crosses from reality into fantasy...