Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctor with whom be had a brief affair in France 10 years ago earlier had borne him a son. Stunned. Bob returns home to destroy Sheila's image of their marriage as honest and perfect. He insists. "She meant nothing to me"! Sheila, tearful and revulsed: "Don't touch me!" The audience has seen it all before...
With a green Viking hat on his head, a shamrock on his cheek, and a banner in his hand. Dave Borgman, a hefty man in his mid-30s, was the consummate MSU fan. The Harvard hat impaled on the horn of his headpiece was the finishing touch...
...next time the Harvard women's ice hockey team and Mr. Zucker "roll in," please have them get in touch with me so I can arrange for their participating in and experiencing the great range of activities and events that do occur at Colby. It is my obligation to help stamp out this affliction known as "urban provincialism" complicated by conceit and dreary condescension. Peter Kingsley Director, Public Affairs, Colby College
...does too. By the end it has turned a "problem drama" into a social comedy, full of cagey behavioral surprises and a lovely performance by Griffiths. Of all the new non-Hollywood films (this one was shot in Hoboken, N.J.), Lianna is the one most likely to reach and touch a wider audience. Even independent films must be dependent on an adventurous movie public...
Throughout the play, Peer dichotomizes women. Those of maternal purity, he fears to touch. The accessible slut, he invariably beds. The young Peer of Part I (rather monotonously played by Greg Martyn) scoots off to a wedding feast held for one of his old flames (Jana Schneider). There he meets Solveig (Jossie de Guzman), a girl of 15 or 16 who captivates him but is skittish at his brusque advances. To the end of the play, she will be his undimmed light of love and will incredibly play the combined role of wife and mother figure without the literal consolations...