Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...date 12th Street and 8th If you're gonna be there don't be late Instructed as such Without a soft touch If it would've mattered, it didn't matter much I waited for you A minute or two Hey, just what kind of girl do you think...
...invasion of Afghanistan, and he demanded that the Soviets be punished for it. Victory followed victory in the primary election campaign, and the Rose Garden strategy became a way of life. But last week a series of blunders and setbacks revealed the isolated President to be somehow out of touch with the nation and perhaps the world. Indeed, a growing number of critics harked back to the possibility that the President was simply not doing his job very well...
...those tomes that offer a garble of familiar images held together by a pseudohistorical text. Books of that sort make almost no demands. One leafs idly through them, hoping the telephone will soon ring. A film, unfortunately, demands attention, and here one fixes on when and how it will touch the next predictable base rather than becoming very deeply interested in the two boys and a girl whose college careers it follows...
...images, media and purposes in the course of a 50-year career. Whether he is engaged with ballet and theater sets or monumental fountains, pieces for giant plazas or intimate playgrounds, huge sun discs fabricated from carved stone or diminutive wood sculptures and paper lamps, Noguchi's touch has never ceased to be subtle, precise and informed. He is entitled to be seen, in a time characterized by minor and peripheral talent, as one of the very few surviving masters of the modernist tradition: the chief living heir, not only to his teacher Brancusi but also to the classical...
...evening is a headlong delight, and a special exhilaration arises from Shaw's gift for wittily unlocking treasures of the mind with the sly, sensitive touch of a safecracker...