Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...touch base at least two or three times a week-more often if events warrant. "My approach with the President is very straightforward and direct," says Baker. "We communicate easily." In order to salvage the Administration's proposal to sell AW ACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, Baker carefully choreographed the President's lobbying effort, even deciding details like which Senators should ride together to and from the White House. A special telephone in Baker's Capitol Hill hideaway-White House extension 806-gives him a direct line to the President...
...this torpid movie season, Diva is to be seen and savored for Philippe Rousselot's electric-blue imagery, for Hilton McConnico's extravagant decors, even for the prodigal joy Beineix derives from parading his talent. And there are some quietly astonishing moments when, with just the touch of hand on neck, the film suggests a growing, reciprocal affection between diva and devotee. It is on these occasions that Beineix's seems a promising movie career indeed-when you can see the young man of flair beginning to unlock the secrets of style. -By Richard Corliss
...found out that we were where the power was," Gavin says now with a touch of bitterness and pride. He is not ready to grant the University--or anyone else but his own friends--even a crumb of credit for the slow rise of the Harvard Semitic Museum during the 1970s. Gavin himself has never received anything more than an annual $300 honorarium from the University. His own salary, and virtually every penny the museum has spent in the last 10 years has been raised by his own efforts...
...cowboys and Indians and rugged individualism--which, according to Austin, has been entirely replaced by freeways and high-rises and Hollywood operatives. Austin cannot understand Kimmer's enthusiasm about Lee' movie, because it is a real holster-grabbing, double-barreled Western "I m the one who's in touch, not him?" Austin yells at Kimmer But the movie producer doesn't agree: he thinks Lee's plot has honest-to-goodness grit. "We make movies. American movies. Leave films to the French," he snaps at Austin. The criticism is implicit but clear: the West survives because the American people want...
...father are visited on the son: Shea, Jr. gets involved in the same sort of shady dealing that did in Shea, Sr., and the violent crimes of the client return to haunt the lawyer. Through the convoluted plot, threads weave and re-weave until every action seems to touch every character, from poor Shea to Harriet Dawson, a sympathetic child-murderer. Fate hangs over everyone's life like the faith the protagonist constantly tries to deny...