Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet diplomacy" approach may now be further jeopardized by the Rother incident. Describing Rother as "a good and dedicated man," the State Department last week denounced "such senseless and wasteful violence" and called on the Guatemalan government for a full investigation. Said one Administration official, with more than a touch of bureaucratic understatement: "There will be a problem if the government was somehow culpable...
...Heavy, man, heavy." All the fantasies in this animated anthology concern a glowing green meteor that rolls around heaven all day, bringing troubles to all who touch it. These are variously comic, terrifying and erotic (if live actors were seen doing what drawn figures occasionally do here, the picture might have rated an X). But the animation is crude when it is not pretentious; the score, heavily laden with rock music, is positively bellicose; and the truncated tales told all betray their comicbook origins. As a result, one is constantly distanced from the movie. Perhaps it should be seen...
These authors praise their new ability to delete and move words and paragraphs at the touch of a few keys, and to enjoy automatic pagination, footnoting and regular book-quality right-hand margins. Novelist Stanley Elkin (The Living End), 51, professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was given the use of a $13,000 Lexitron by the school. Even before he was disabled by the disease, claims Elkin, the processor would have accelerated his output: "You don't have to screw around erasing and crossing out, finding a clear place...
That's what Derek does for a career these days. He runs around prostituting his wife, Bo. Granted it's a nice, clean, look-but-don't-touch prostitution: usually in the pages of Playboy, or in the movie theatres. He announces to the public: Look what I get to sleep with every night! And he's quick to point out that nobody photographs her but him. One can hardly blame John for being infatuated with Bo, for she is very beautiful indeed and as long as he wants to show her off and she is willing to go along...
...made a wise choice, a becoming choice, but perhaps not a compelling one. "Are you in love?" asked a reporter. His fiancée beamed, blushed and said yes. The Prince's answer: "Whatever love means"-a remark of rather too much objectivity, hinting at even a touch of weariness...