Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Agca, the Turk who is serving a life sentence for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, was released. The girl's captors threatened to kill her unless their demands were met by midnight last Wednesday. But after the deadline passed the kidnapers remained out of touch, and Emanuela out of sight. The abductors' approach has been decidedly bizarre. After Agca told reporters that he was happy to remain in jail, his apparent benefactors issued an almost incoherent communique dismissing his statement as "irrelevant." They have consistently refused to provide conclusive proof that Emanuela, the daughter...
Nobuo Hozumi, who taught at Harvard and is now with Waseda's architecture department, said, "Technology may not be the triumph we thought it would be. More than ever, we need the warm touch of the human hand." Maki studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., as well as at Harvard, which he frequently visits. The interior of his new Keio University library has a richness of architectural effects-the views, the progression of spaces, the staircase, furniture that doubles as sculpture-that are more palatial than academic but echo traditional Japanese motives. The most...
...going good," says Steve Rogers, Montreal's best pitcher, "it's nothing to have them give you six standing ovations in a single game." Rogers can think of a few negatives in Canada: high taxes, inflated costs, language barriers. "But overall it's like a little touch of Europe," he says. "I love...
...raved-up tutorial in rock-'n'-roll survival, a history lesson with a horn section and one of the best bands this side of E Street. This show is about the fall and rise of David Bowie. A little regeneration and a little dancing in the aisles, a touch of optimism and a double dose of rhythm and blues and, as the man himself once said, wham bam, thank...
...have heard it coming or guessed or lucked out, but whatever, the freewheeling, free-form sound that critics are calling the New Music slips neatly into Bowie's own new groove. If it is casual and a little cool, a little anonymous and a touch technocratic, then it must be New Music and Let's Dance. Talking about the album, Bowie can sound almost evangelistic, like Billy Graham on a crusade. He speaks of "positive music, something that has an inward glow to it, something that still has something to say but is more than the general kind of nihilistic...