Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reduced to the status of a fugitive in rags who fears for his life and does not know where he will be safe. As he descends into the underworld, haunted by undercover agents and herded from truck to shadowy truck, the highest cleric in the land finds himself in touch for the first time with the masses he claims to represent. He also finds himself increasingly, and in every way, in the dark...
...Things have been changing," declared Vellucci at last week's City Council meeting. "All I hear from Councilors and politicians in this city is that we must find new sources of revenue--but we mustn't touch Harvard or MIT...I assure you that they are doing research in those tax-exempt buildings to make money...
...shows the possibility of dynamics where there have been no dynamics for years," said speaker David E. Powell, a fellow it the Russian Research Center. "It is wonderful for the Soviet citizens as it allows them access to cultural experiences they have been denied and brings them more in touch with the world and the Westerners...
Whatever the explanation for Cosby's magic touch, it seems to work just as well in print as on TV. In Fatherhood, Cosby sympathized with every dad who has ever been pestered by a child for money or got Soap on a Rope as a Father's Day present. Time Flies has the same broad appeal, with wry, wistful comments on every middle-aged trauma from the onset of love handles around the midsection to the embarrassment of searching for glasses that are sitting on top of one's head...
...bargaining session that ended about 60 hours beyond the original strike deadline, settlement came on Thursday morning. U.A.W. President Owen Bieber was not around for the handshakes; the strain of the negotiations had sent him to a Detroit hospital on Tuesday night with stomach pains. But he kept in touch with the talks by phone, and his deputy, U.A.W. Vice President Stephen Yokich, proclaimed the union's view of the outcome. "We have a good agreement," he said. "Truly, we broke a lot of new ground...