Word: touche
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Whatever the decision, it is certain to touch off a loud postrecess wrangle in Congress, which must put up the money ?perhaps $100 billion eventually. But that multibillion-dollar controversy will be only the first in a long series of tormenting decisions that will involve nearly every aspect of the Administration's plan to commit a staggering $1.5 trillion over the next five years to the biggest peacetime military buildup in U.S. history. Additional arguments are in immediate prospect, or already in progress, about everything from the size of aircraft carriers to the size of pay raises for Army...
...FARMER begins reworking his epic from a Grating to an R, the film stands still. The specter of Julie Andrews baring her breasts on the Silver Screen can't keep a movie going for another hour. Focusing on a Farmer now independent of Hollywood, Edwards loses touch with the object of his satire. He resorts to silliness, the gimmicks that sustained Pink Panther films--destructive car chases, etc.--that are incongruous and pointless here...
...togetherness on the current court -and the Justices tend to communicate with one another only in writing. The result is often a series of individual opinions based on conflicting rationales that confuse the impact of a majority decision. Powell has called the court "nine one-man law firms." A touch of warmth and sociability could improve the court's effectiveness, no matter what direction it takes...
Even while critics hailed him as Hemingway's equal, Hammett was losing his drive and his touch. He discovered that he could live handsomely off subsidiary rights. The Thin Man (1934) was his last and most careless novel; it ultimately brought him almost $1 million from film and radio serializations. Hollywood kept recycling his material; the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, with Humphrey Bogart and Sidney Greenstreet, was the third film based on that book in ten years. Hammett had always shown a streak of to-hell-with-it independence, and success made him increasingly reckless. He partied...
...that over the past year it had withdrawn its sponsorship from some 50 episodes. SmithKline, which advertises Contac and Dietac, responded to CBTV by expressing its concern in writing to the networks. A few other companies, including Gillette, Phillips Petroleum and Dow Chemical, took the precaution of getting in touch with CBTV. The judgment conveyed to Phillips Petroleum Media Relations Representative Jim Daniels: "We were pretty good for sex, middle of the road for violence and bad for profanity...