Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republicans are trying various strategies to blunt the economic issue. "Quite frankly, we are just avoiding it altogether," says Bob Heller, a strategist for the re-election campaign of Texas Congressman Jack Fields. Instead, Fields' ads picture him as a hard-working legislator who stays in close touch with his constituents. In hard-hit New England, some Republicans are trying to put distance between themselves and Reagan's policies. Rhode Island Congresswoman Claudine Schneider stresses the independence she showed in voting against many of the President's measures during her first term...
...nine days before he was supposed to take office, Amin remains an unknown quantity. Though perceived as weak and inexperienced, Amin should benefit from his record as a conciliatory figure in Lebanon's fractious political world. While Bashir attempted to impose Christian supremacy in Lebanon, Amin remained in touch with the country's other religious communities. Christians and Muslims alike seem to be exhausted by their internecine battles and, viewing the devastation of their country, may once again be willing to understand that they have no choice but to live together. Although most Lebanese believe that elements...
...heart with the wisest man he knew. "I don't care for the present trends either in literature or the theater," he confessed. "Pornography bores me. Squalor disgusts me. Garishness, vulgarity and commonness of mind offend me." Was it possible, he asked, that he was out of touch with the new decade...
...answer was a resounding no, and that wise gentleman-the selfsame Noel Coward-assured him that it was not he who was out of touch; it was the decade. And he was right, as he so often is in this wicked, witty and refreshingly sane volume of diaries. Much of the work he so archly deplored has already been forgotten, while his own plays continue to please and delight, as they probably will for as long as audiences enjoy laughing. Present Laughter (1942), with George C. Scott, is one of this year's Broadway hits, and just two weeks...
...Personal Touch: You have overused the line about your father losing his job in the Depression and how you feel the pain of every unemployed factory worker. Forget the unemployed, they don't have jobs, so they don't enjoy tax breaks. Instead, try to relate to some other groups on a personal level...