Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas M. Reardon, the University's director of development, said Harvard has not conducted any fundraising in Japan for eight years except for staying in touch with alumni who live in the country...
...rising to Maronite leadership, Bashir had to fight not only Palestinians and leftist Muslims but also some of his fellow Maronites. In the tense atmosphere, a minor automobile mishap could touch off a firefight between Bashir's Phalangist warriors and the "tigers" of former President Camille Chamoun, often with bloody results. Gemayel's Phalangists were accused of murdering a son and granddaughter of former President Suleiman Franjieh (whose own followers, according to local belief, had once gunned down 17 members of a rival family in a church in northern Lebanon...
...beach suggest Thurber. In Matisse, no matter how reduced the outline may be or how schematic the stroke of the crayon that says "eye," "breast" or "hip," one can almost always sense the live weight of a body, its organic relationship of part to part, its accessibility to touch. This ability to translate the presence of the physical object into abbreviated signs without sensuous loss is a precondition of good figure drawing, and Avery lacked it; his attitude was too distanced, his style too mannered and crotchety...
...about a year-and-a-half since he last released original material with Trust. Almost Blue was entirely country covers--and Elvis has never appeared more urgent, more frantic simply to get his ideas spilling out. The album is terribly passionate, loaded with sharp commentary about out-of-touch English aristocracy, the dilemma of getting your girlfriend pregnant, and broken marriages. What's more, Costello goes crazy on the overdubbing of his own voice, on snappy little orchestral hooks with violins, and other assorted studio, song-writing gimmicks. But it is all too much, too soon, with too much...
Astaire and Rogers may have inspired Americans to dance, but Arthur Murray, 87, taught them. From touch dancing in a flyspecked, New York City dime-a-dance hall in 1913, to a nationwide chain of dance studios, to national prominence on television's The Arthur Murray Party, a ratings winner in the 1950s, to a seemingly choreographed game of doubles with his wife Kathryn on courts near their Hawaiian home below Diamond Head, the former Broadway hoofer has always kept both feet on the ground. His professional foxtrotting days behind him, although he still takes a turn...