Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walking into the Washington bureau of the New York Times, sitting down with three reporters, and claiming that he would never have used Carter documents to help Reagan, whose campaign he directed. "I wouldn't tolerate it," Casey said of the briefing book. "I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole...
...group of alumni is as celebrated, for the stature of its members and the money they donate--as well as for the extensive network for keeping them in touch...
...voices two tenor and two bass are tolerably strong the orchestra disciplined and subdued; the only touch that proves more distracting than ingenuous is the "Creative" black tie of the soloists, which includes a woven Indian style smock along with the cummerbunds and so forth. But what happens on stage necessarily leaves them pale by comparison. Carlo Rizzo who dances the rooster is astonishing as is Susan White as the Fox; the latter in a scarlet body stocking attacks and "dies" with a sinuous grace while Rizzo does best in the rooster's moments of sweaty panic. In one such...
...special thanksgiving service, the scholars gathered beneath the venerable arches of Christ Church Cathedral; then they salted piety with a touch of hubris, praying that they might "use to God's glory the gifts and opportunities with which we have been so abundantly blessed." Later, over Paarl 1961 vintage port, selected to honor the South Africans present, Chancellor of Oxford and former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan declared that those attending were the product of "the most imaginative plan, the most imaginative concept ever designed" in education...
Readers who follow the work of Author Barry Hannah may feel a touch of déjà vu upon beginning his fifth book. The Tennis Handsome opens with two pieces from Airships (1978), Hannah's highly praised collection of short stories. The first, Return to Return, retells the gothic catastrophe of French Edward, a good-looking tennis pro who discovers his mother in bed with his supposedly homosexual coach, nearly drowns in the Mississippi River and is fished out with most of his mental capacities washed away. He lives on as an automaton who is still a terror...