Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that their actions were "provocative" rather than "acts of self-defense." After that, the settlers did appear to be distancing themselves from the current troubles. Yisrael Harel, the general secretary of a settlers' organization, declared: "Our message to the Palestinian population is clear and simple: Don't touch us and we won't touch...
Perhaps because Ronald Reagan doesn't read all that much, he cares more about what television shows than what print says. He and television both know that facts are heavy, arguments confusing, charts boring; to grab the biggest audience, give your story the human touch. This is "for-example" journalism and politics, which frequently mislead...
...fashion business, and even I can't tell you what an Armani man or woman is." That is just the point. The fact that it got past Bergé so easily may indicate that the Saint Laurent enterprise has lost its sure touch with a significant-and significantly younger-portion of the market, newly moneyed and sartorially independent, who do not want "a look...
...seemed to melt along the arm. For her line this fall, the intrepid Barnes is featuring overcoats of exotic tweeds. She is also reworking men's and women's jackets with knitted collars of complementary colors but with different, tighter weaves incorporating spandex. If this sounds a touch outré, her clients-including Saks and Neiman-Marcus-are decidedly down-to-earth, and her 1981 sales take of $2 million is positively corporate for someone who can still use a loom...
...Paris bookstall in April 1959-the 13th I believe it was, the afternoon, it was drizzling-that I found it after searching all Europe and North America for a copy; that it is dog-eared at passages that mean more to my life than my heartbeat; that the mere touch of its pages recalls to me in a Proustian shower my first love, my best dreams. Should I mind that you seek to take all that away? That I will undoubtedly never get it back? Then even if you actually return it to me one day, I will be wizened...