Word: touche
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...explain clearly what he has accomplished has plagued the Administration most. "Our greatest single failure is that we have not communicated effectively a description of the country's problems or a pertinent solution to those problems," he says. It is more than that. At times Carter's touch has been so uncertain that he has caused many Americans to lose confidence in him, to wonder if he really had a vision for the country...
BALTIMORE--Horace Ivory's touch-down on a 98-yd. kickoff return gave New England the lead for good in a seesaw National Football League game, and the Patriots went on to defeat the Baltimore Colts, 37-21, Sunday...
...General Electric Theater on TV and traveling lecturer at GE plants. Inveighing against Government interference in the movie industry, he began collecting evidence of federal intervention in other industries, reading conservative literature and finding examples of the damage done by Washington. His GE tours put him in touch with more traditional, more conservative businessmen outside the film industry, and he was impressed. The point of this personal history is that Reagan's political principles, while sincerely held, derive from his gut reactions to specific events rather than any intellectual process. By 1964, when Reagan burst on the political scene...
Leaders must believe in power, he says. They must have a sense of majesty, possess dignity, a touch of poetry and at the same time a tolerance for what is imperfect. "Too often these days we have developed self-hatred because we have had to act imperfectly...
...lots of makeup and suggestive patter, gentleman friend on the side. She's not. She's a housewife who cannot keep house, and whose only escape from her drab apartment is a weekly movie matinee with the superintendent (Everett McGill). O.K., her Mongol cheekbones do suggest a touch of fashion-model class. True, the young super does look as if he placed second in a Jack Palance look-alike contest. But it is still 1953, and this is Union City, N.J. From the wrong side of the Hudson River, the lights of New York can seem a million...