Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this city is now R rated. I've yet to hear anyone say, "Let's go to a movie. There is one playing that's full of profanity, nudity, sexual moaning and violence." Millions of people stay away for that reason. Perhaps Hollywood has lost touch with the rest of America...
That month Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir arrived in Washington to touch base with the new Administration. His instructions were to express displeasure about the pending arms sale but not to make a major issue of it. "I guess it's just something we'll have to live with," said one high official in Israel at the time. Israelis assert that Shamir was given no hint that the deal might include AWACS and they now feel misled, even betrayed. U.S. officials insist that Shamir was told specifically that AWACS might be included...
...fighting for survival. That, coupled with intense emotionalism and the abundance of weaponry in all hands, tends to make the situation totally uncontrollable." A U.S. State Department expert echoed that bleak assessment: "Lebanon has become a cockpit of warfare, mainly because of the non-Lebanese. We have been in touch with all the parties, but we are very pessimistic...
...since the first landing of men on the moon had the nation shown such enthusiastic interest in space. Teachers interrupted classes so youngsters could see the landing. Work in offices and factories virtually ceased. Hearing that Columbia was about to touch down, a fitter in a Manhattan men's shop dashed off to the nearest TV set, leaving a customer standing before a mirror all pinned up in an unfinished suit. The Atlanta Constitution's resident cartoonist, Baldy, showed a beaming Uncle Sam emerging out of the shuttle with his arms raised high like a victorious boxer...
...painting (the product). Sometimes, more recently, Close seems to abandon the grid altogether, transforming his standard face of Philip Glass into an almost rococo swirl of repeated fingerprints impressed on the canvas from an ink pad: a literal parody, if ever there was one, of the "sense of touch" in traditional painting. But always he seems to be after a kind of minimalist nirvana where, as he puts it, "every square inch was physically the same, where there was no area of more beautiful brushing or virtuoso art marks...