Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misses important opportunities. Late last year Bert Lance, Democratic state chairman in Georgia and head of a coalition of Southern leaders, met with Glenn and urged him to get in touch with the group. Lance heard nothing for months. Mondale in the meantime sent his campaign chairman to see Lance for support and openly laid out his strategy. A topflight political fund raiser, Tim Finchem, approached Glenn last fall about joining the campaign. Finchem, who waited three months for an answer, finally despaired, signed on with Mondale, and has since become one of the stars of that operation...
Whatever their talents and tenets, these refugees shared the experience of the shipwrecked. Anthony Heilbut, whose parents were Berlin emigres, has exercised impressive, if indulgent scholarship, and even a touch of poetry, to get to the heart of this diaspora...
Percy is aware that this forbidding subject requires a light touch. In fact, most readers know the author as the genteel Louisianian who wrote such mournfully charming novels as The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman and Love in the Ruins. But there is also Percy the Dixie Kierkegaard who wrote The Message in the Bottle. That 1975 collection of essays attempted to relieve the ache of self-estrangement by arguing that humankind was the glory of the universe because it was the only known species that used language (as distinguished from the intelligent communication of chimps and dolphins...
...their own struggling to be himself, rather than watching Now Voyager and deciding whether they are Bette Davis or Paul Henreid." The success of Torch Song, Fierstein believes, will make it easier for other gay plays to find backers, as well as audiences. "Producers who wouldn't touch a gay show are now asking for one," he says...
...might say the same for Christopher Reeve. Superman is a role that offers as many pitfalls as opportunities: surrender to parody and the part becomes as two-dimensional as newsprint; emphasize the stalwart heroism and the audience falls asleep. Reeve brings both a light touch and sufficient muscle to Superman. And when he goes bad, he is a sketch of vice triumphant, swaggering toward the vixen Lorelei for a sulfurous kiss. It is largely to Reeve's credit that this summer's moviegoers will look up at the screen...