Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Esquire editor adds that he asked Wolfe how closely he had investigated the little tugs at the ends of shades, and Wolfe said that he had not really looked at them, but he just remembered them when it came time to write. He thought they would be a nice touch, and so he used them in the piece again and again, until they were a recurring refrain in the article, Eisenberg says...
Some time early in April, I started calling myold friends from high school more frequently thanI had done in the previous three years. We all hadkept in touch, and every year, come vacation timewe would resume our cliquey ways. But when atcollege, we tended to become absorbed in ourdifferent worlds...
With the album behind her, and final plans being made for a summer tour, Childs is forging a fresh perspective. She has got in touch with her family. She is thinking about a second record ("I want Indian percussion, African voices and an Indonesian influence"). If she can get an album like Union from a single relationship, the music she makes from the rest of her life should really be extraordinary...
Together the two requests touch on most of Wright's questionable financial dealings. These include his intervention with Anwar Sadat on behalf of a businessman friend seeking oil rights in Egypt and similar intervention at the Interior Department to influence the award of gas leases to a company in which Wright had a $15,000 investment. Wright is said to have sought special help for a savings and loan in Texas headed by one of his largest fund raisers. A recent allegation concerns 55% book royalties (10% to 15% is standard) that Wright has received for a cut-and-paste...
...Manzano) were married in a ceremony attended by all their friends, both human and Muppet. "It's a simple message we're dealing with," said Lisa Simon, one of the show's producers. "You become a family by forming bonds. That's what love is." However, there is a touch of dissonance. In his trash can, Oscar the Grouch grumbled that the whole affair was disgusting. But that's just because he's fallen out with his girlfriend Grundgetta...