Word: touche
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...heart of all such homes is a small computer that can link any number of kitchen appliances, security devices, and TV and stereo components. That computer can receive signals from telephones, hand-held controllers or touch- sensitive video screens. One tap on the screen of a typical system brings up a schematic diagram of the house. Another tap produces a display of the air temperature in every room. By selecting from a series of menu choices, the homeowner can tell the house to heat the bedrooms to a comfy 72 degrees F while leaving the rest of the rooms...
Actually, the Pat Sajak Show has stationed itself carefully between those twin towers of late night, Carson and David Letterman. Like Letterman, Sajak has a touch of self-mocking irony and presides over irreverent comedy bits, which range from funny (Sajak goes to the doctor) to lame (audience members are enlisted to play Dunk an Auto Mechanic). But the show's physical look (band on the right, desk and couch on the left) and format (opening monologue followed by brief chat with easygoing sidekick), along with the host's witty but nonthreatening style, are all unmistakably Carson...
That Reagan believed in his spiel, and in himself, more fully than do most politicians enhanced his credibility. Though he has been living like gentry for nearly 40 years, his geniality kept him in touch with the folks. "Having been a Roosevelt Democrat was an asset," Neustadt observes. "Though he turned far to the right, he never became a three-piece-suit, business Republican." Instead he became something new under the Republican sun, a smile-button conservative who persuaded voters that less taxation meant more prosperity, that less government facilitated the pursuit of happiness. And he taught the Washington establishment...
...generation of yuppies vie to succeed Al Vellucci, their voices sound flatter and harsher than the full declamations Cambridge has come to expect of its last New Deal populist. Like Harvard Square, the City Council is losing its human touch...
Some of Ivana's ideas of decoration were a little odd, like sending to London for fur hats to bring a touch of Buckingham Palace to the doormen at Trump Tower. But she worked hard, and the Donald, as she sometimes calls him, kept giving her new responsibilities. When she ran his Atlantic City casinos, she was the boss of 4,000 people. "I run my operations like a family business," she says. "I sign every check, every receipt. I'm not tough, but I'm strong. You can't be a pussycat." This was, in a way, a necessity...