Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chasm between Stanford's powerful scientific-technical community and its humanities disciplines. For all his accomplishments, Kennedy is modest about his role at the university: "I can steer it a bit, but I couldn't redirect it if I wanted to." Yet all signs are that the Kennedy touch will keep the tight ship that is Stanford moving handsomely forward...
RADCLIFFE'S obeisance to the Harvard administration has caused it to lose touch with today's college students. The school sponsors luncheons, conferences and seminars for its students on important women's issues, but they draw woefully small audiences. At meetings of the Radcliffe Union of Students, Radcliffe's official student organization, less than 20 students regularly attend...
...five years since crack first appeared in the U.S., this cheap, powerful cocaine derivative has virtually shredded what was left of the tattered social fabric of the ghetto. The driving force behind the drug epidemic is not just the highly addictive nature of crack; many young hustlers never touch the stuff. They are drawn by the more enticing lure of fast money. "They can make $1,000 a week dealing," says Blair Miller of the Adolescent Dual Diagnosis Unit in Detroit's Samaritan Health Center. "These kids have no other skills. It's very hard to resist." In some cities...
...free-associate: Andy Warhol and what? Close your eyes. Do silver-and- rosewood tea sets come to mind? How about a Superman Touch-Tone phone or a frontal photo of a naked Yul Brynner? Allow your imagination to wander across Eskimo bone masks, prehistoric pottery and World War II medals. Try these: 18- karat-gold nail scissors and wooden merry-go-round horses...
Nunn does nothing to balance the ticket in terms of charisma. Aggressively bland and boring, he insists on speaking his paragraphs in a Mister Rogers monotone. Nunn's only touch of vanity is the careful left-to-right sweep of hair to cover his expansionary bald spot...