Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tender spots in my lower back felt the final ten minutes of treatment from needles so fine that they never broke the skin. The finishing touch: he held a smoldering root, known as moxa, above the treated area to induce relaxation...
...opponent, conservative Republican James Abdnor, 57, a bachelor wheat farmer and popular four-term Congressman, maintains that McGovern has lost touch with South Dakotans. Says Abdnor: "I'm the first working farmer off a tractor that South Dakota ever sent to Washington. I represent the mainstream." Abdnor favors Government price supports for farm products and a stronger national defense, but less Government spending on social welfare programs-all popular stands in the state, where nearly 25% of the 689,000 people live on farms...
...also an international oil glut, but that was quickly gone after the upheavals in Iran resulted in lower production in that country. Much of the so-called glut is oil needed to fill the complex transportation and refining network, and a decline of as little as 7% could touch off emergencies...
There were other influences too: Daumier for the dense, impacted drawing, a touch of caricaturists like Théophile Steinlen for the faces, and symbolist poetry for the emblematic moodiness of some of the scenes. Some of the most powerful aspects of Hopper's work came from outside the history of painting itself: from theater, whose devices of staging and lighting Hopper constantly invoked. Hopper's rooms and landscapes have a constant air of expectancy. When empty, they seem to have been just vacated by actors; when they are peopled, the figures are posed and lit as though...
Another Harvard quarterback, Donny Allard, guided the Crimson to a touch-down in the third stanza after Bill Holley recovered a Brown fumble. But after that the Crimson offense couldn't get untracked...