Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article on double-digit unemployment failed to touch upon the most significant cause. A large percentage of the unemployed formerly worked in heavy industry or businesses directly dependent on it. Unfortunately, a major portion of America's basic industries can no longer compete with foreign suppliers. Until workers deliver more productivity and quality for their wages, unemployment will remain high...
...means is catalogue shopping risk-free, nor is it necessarily a substitute for the old-fashioned touch-feel-try experience of buying in a store. Many consumer complaints concern the failure of some mail-order companies to notify customers promptly if items ordered cannot be delivered within a reasonable period; even more maddeningly, the cataloguers' computers can make alphabet soup of a simple order. Most expensive things from jewelry and furs to high-style fabrics and all fitted clothing demand personal, tactile, in-store selection. There are still some salesclerks around who can advise customers, lead them to real...
Emerging after an electronic bathing of the senses, one will want to touch up the summer's fading tan. Switch on the Swiss ultra violet A-ray suntanning machine ($14,500, from Hammacher Schlemmer). Its secret: the unit is the "only machine that filters out harmful ultra violet B and C rays," prevents burning, peeling and damaged skin. Protective reading goggles are provided, along with special gloves that measure skin response to exposure. Just plug into any 110 V-l 115 V outlet. The tan can be shown off at dinner, served on an 800-Ib. table...
...often, familiar. Palin appears less interested in being funny than in offering criticism of a society that is long since dead and at least as immune to his sallies as a modern audience is likely to be. He seems to have confused irreverence with irrelevance and entirely lost touch with his funny bone...
...tony touch in Ecstasy, 49 years ago, when the heroine's string of pearls burst and scattered to symbolize her surrender to passion. When the same visual genteelness is employed in a modern film, it is a little like getting a set of stereopticon slides instead of a VTR for your birthday; more nostalgic good taste than you really need. The subject now is not mere infidelity but incest no less, between an uncle (Sean Connery) and his niece (Betsy Brantley), who are on a climbing holiday in the Swiss Alps in the 1930s. Their guide (Lambert Wilson) restores...