Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the device E.T. makes to re-establish contact with his spaceship. "Phone home," the little lost spaceman learns to say plaintively, and this dictates the single TV commercial that Spielberg will allow him to make. Naturally, it will be for the Bell System: Reach out and touch someone...
...Nicholas T Mitropolous, director of the Forum at the IOP is now with Murphy's campaign-- he worked the floor as one of her whips at the convention Saturday. Moore says he does not consult with her on the specifics of the campaign, but that they still keep in touch, and he adds that she does get issues advice from some professors...
...Critic George Steiner believes "the computer generation will be out of touch with certain springs of human identity and creativity," he is wrong. Programming a computer is primarily an artistic and not a scientific activity. When I teach my students computer skills, I am offering them a new way to be creative. The art of writing programs is akin to the art of writing poetry...
...decades since that warning, the practice of bamboozlement has, if anything, increased. The appropriate response is not a hopeless effort to cleanse the world of seductive words. Simple awareness of how frequently and variously they are loaded reduces the chances that one will fall out of touch with so-called reality. -By Frank Trippett
...prove that I could." Or his bizarre conclusion to a passage describing the weight-lifting program his crew followed his freshman year "when the Mercury astronauts were chosen the largest part of the training was to desensitize them. The astronauts had to be trained not to touch anything, to endure i sometimes think that is what we were trained to do to endure so much that races became easy by comparison...