Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kahn relates, Whitney's father's estate came to $178,893.655. But Jock affected a common touch. Kahn entitles one chapter "Nice if You Can't Afford Pewter," the remark Jock made in reply to a rich friend's compliment concerning the family silver. After he inherited a good part of his father's nine figures, he took a 565 a month job as a bank clerk. Commuting to work no his yacht every morning. Jock "scared the fish," a friend observed...
...seemed-almost-as if nothing had ever happened. There, in his familiar role as pilgrim to the faithful, was Pope John Paul II. The car moving slowly, the crowd pressing in, the hands stretching to touch-it was the scene that had marked, more than any other, the joy of his papacy. But that same scene now also calls up memories of the assassination attempt nine months ago. Last week the Pope was trying to complete the healing of those wounds by turning again to minister to his worldwide flock...
Some musicals-the good ones, that is-knock audiences off their feet with brassy numbers. Others touch their hearts with sentimental ballads. Pump Boys and Dinettes is different: it tickles the funny bone and makes everybody feel, just for the evening, like a good ole boy or a good ole girl. Country music, in other words, has come to Broadway...
...umpires who won respect for his accurate calls and skill in handling irascible players; of an apparent heart attack; in Dunmore, Pa. Chylak, who would tolerate a player's profanity but not his physical abuse, once summarized his credo: "Put the words on me, but don't touch me or spit...
...know that Bebe Rebozo was "Nixon's source of undemanding mental relaxation"? Do you know that "Pat Nixon grew in her role as First Lady"? Do you know that Tricia Nixon once stuck Ehrlichman with the tab for lunch"? Do you care? And when Ehrlichman's narrative does occasionally touch on an illuminating point--like when he mentions that Nixon and Colson attempted to coerce network television executives to procure more favorable coverage--it is rarely developed beyond mere mention...