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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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That means the office is here to stay and grow in what has evolved over the years as its double-barrelled role of putting students in touch with leading artists and pushing them to do creative projects With student and faculty participation with the office increasing yearly. Mayman and her staff of three are consistently put to the task of dreaming up imaginative ways to do this...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Putting Down Roots | 9/23/1983 | See Source »

...great to see the familiar faces again," says Mr. Bartley, owner of Bartley's Burger Cottage on Mass. Ave. "During the summer we have mostly tourists, and you just don't get the same personal touch...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Cooking Up Hamburgers For Two Generations | 9/22/1983 | See Source »

...That touch is just what the owner says has kept him in business all these years. With the rapid turnover of stores in the Square and the multiplication of trendy eating places and chic boutiques, "students like to see something that's stayed the same," says Mr. B., as he is known to Cottage regulars...

Author: By Jean E. Engelmayer, | Title: Cooking Up Hamburgers For Two Generations | 9/22/1983 | See Source »

Another subtle irony detected by area friends of Aquino was his frequent contact with the government that apparently feared him. "The perplexing thing was that at the same time as he was being outspoken, he was also in touch with the people in the Philippine government." Unger said Experts describe a peculiar relationship between Aquino and his government whereby Aquino's formidable stables as an opponent made him a near insider in the political establishment. A fraternity brother of Marcos who dated Imelda at University of the Philippines in Manila, Aquino was "an adversary rather than in enemy to Marcos...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: The Scholarly Life of a Leader | 9/21/1983 | See Source »

...been overheard at the supermarket check-out counter or the local beer joint. His most memorable people live on the edge: of poverty, alcoholic self-destruction, loneliness. Something in their lives denies them a sense of community. They feel this lack intensely, yet are too wary of intimacy to touch other people, even with language. "What's to say?" wonders one man. Another, traveling to meet the son he has not seen in many years, dreads the moment of greeting: "He really didn't know what he was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Art from Less Matter | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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