Word: touche
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...intellectual reaches of the Kennedy School of Government, there's a politician News week once called "a frumpy reformer with a common touch...
...tactics used by Bush's strategists to brand Michael Dukakis a gooey liberal out of touch with mainstream values, none worked better than the relentless pounding of Horton's horrible tale. By the end of the campaign, scarcely a voter had not been exposed to the lurid details of the rapacious spree Horton committed while on weekend furlough from the Massachusetts prison to which he had been sentenced to life without parole for a brutal 1974 homicide...
Each entrant is equipped with a simulated brokerage account containing $500,000. The investors place orders by calling a toll-free number that puts them in touch with student "brokers" in Wellesley, Mass., who record the transactions based on the latest stock quotes. The investor who earns the most by Feb. 28 wins $25,000 in real money and a trip to the Bahamas...
...bitter truth. "Who will win the soccer championship this season?" Answer: "The team with the fewest players in jail." But to most Hungarians, there is nothing very funny about the soccer bribery scheme that by last week had developed into one of the biggest sports scandals ever to touch the East bloc...
What Calvino would have done with sight and touch the reader can only conjecture. That he or she will want to do so is just the sort of twist that Calvino, one of the century's greatest imaginers, would have loved...