Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it's great to see Harvard pictures on the walls," says customer Roger Graves 43. "It adds a good warm touch." Graves feels that the motif is "a smart marketing idea...
Three Sisters does not capture an audience's attention automatically; it is talky, slow-paced, and subtle. But it is also a deeply moving, relevant work, with sparks of surprising humor and even a touch of irony. It is to the credit of Serban and the ART that this genuinely gripping production has been mounted. Sadly, it is easy to envision an even more arresting version, in which Serban's odd conception of the sisters' plight did not overwhelm the gentle, quirky, quicksilver loveliness of the play. Even when bolstered by the elegant proficiency of a director like Serban, innovation...
There is a touch of elaborate fantasy about the salad-dressing venture and, for two people whose reality is Hollywood, a suggestion of make-believe to the contented exiles in Westport. For years Paul and Joanne lived beside the small, tumbling Aspetuck River, where Paul would break the ice and splash on winter mornings after his sauna. They have another house in Beverly Hills and an apartment in an East Side Manhattan hotel. In the summer of 1981, keeping their former house for the use of whichever daughters happened by, they moved across the river to a small, 1736 farmhouse...
...crowds assembled for its most spectacular sequences, no matter what the cost and care lavished on its re-creation of vanished epochs, no matter how vividly it realizes the violence of great historical forces caught up in deadly conflict, the epic cinema finally depends on small matters-the touch of a hand, a look in the eyes, a whisper of dialogue-to make a lasting emotional connection with its audience. This is particularly true of films about figures whose claim on the attention of the world is exerted not through force of arms but through force of mind and spirit...
...much the same uplift have people always foraged for the small, personal glimmers in the lives of the powerful. Several U.S. Presidents endeared themselves to the public through their pastimes: Ike's golf, Kennedy's touch football, Truman's piano playing. Hoover took to fishing and throwing a medicine ball, though not at the same time. Nixon had no hobbies to speak of, unless one counts the knotting of one's ties. The most interesting pastimes were those of Calvin Coolidge, who reportedly took pleasure in the mechanical horse and pitching hay. The former probably delimited...