Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study will include a comprehensive poll of undergraduates next spring, but Verba acknowledges some concern over maintaining close touch with students during such a project. "I guess I don't have a very clear and single answer to how one finds out what are the issues," he says. He adds, however, that research in the way elected officials monitor constituencies gives him a better sense of the problem than others might have...
...Only a few young people saw his true benevolence, and they and the creature became inseparable. In return for their faith, the alien established a strange and powerful bond with his earthling disciples: they suffered together--even when they were miles apart--and he healed their wounds with a touch of his other-worldly finger...
...Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even more convincing. This time French operatives played the part of hired thugs and faked a kidnaping. Mitterrand's press-conference plea added the crowning touch...
...this private house of his here in East Hampton, near the eastern tip of Long Island, is one of the best restaurants in the U.S. Claiborne repeats this bouquet in his new memoir-with-recipes, A Feast Made for Laughter (Doubleday; $17.95). But so light and joyous is his touch when he writes about food, and so much of the praise redirected toward his talented colleague, French Chef Pierre Franey, that his self-beguilement seems no more than just...
Friday. A salutary touch of malice gloriously unjust. She describes a visit to Novelist Elizabeth Bowen in Ireland, where other guests included Critic Cyril Connolly and wife: "There we spent one night, unfortunately with baboon Connolly & his gollywog slug wife Jean...