Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...improbable, stupid stuff, but it is also what physical farce is made of. The Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin used to play these sorts of raucous gags, and these days people like the Coen Brothers (Raising Arizona) are among its most skillful practitioners. Blake Edwards may have lost his touch recently, but this is the man who exposed Mary Poppins' (wife Julie Andrews') breasts in the clever Hollywood expose S.O.B., and it is also the man who exposed everything you ever wanted to know about Bo Derek in 10. In addition, he is the genius behind the Pink Panther movies...
...thing, authorities did not necessarily have to remove Kent-Brown from the auditorium as if he were in physical danger. The protesters did not touch or other wise physically accost him. He could have continued his oration with the protest in progress and exited at its conclusion. In another possible scenario, Police could have allowed Kent-Brown to return to the podium after a brief period of administrative action within the auditorium. Dean of Students Archie C. Epps might have negotiated with protesters; police might have removed them from the exists and escorted them out of the Science Center...
...image as a young, honest politician who was determined to modernize the economy and clean up the Congress Party, whose members he said in 1985 "follow no principle of public morality." Today, none of those goals has been fulfilled, and Gandhi seems to have lost his golden electioneering touch. He made four campaign swings in March through West Bengal (pop. 60 million). Referring to the Communist government of West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, 72, Gandhi repeatedly exhorted the crowds to "smash the red fort of Marxism...
...Francisco's Stanford Court is perennially rated America's No. 1 hotel by CEOs. To ensure its heady reputation, President Jim Nassikas decided to add a power touch. Along with the mints and fuzzy bathrobes, he tucked a $16.95 copy of a dictionary next to the Bible in each room. "Our hotel competitors are caught up in shampoo wars," says Nassikas. "A dictionary is more useful...
...next day's session, which featured Popadiuk's grilling, went even more smoothly. One personal touch that Reagan never got the chance to use came in answer to a practice question on AIDS. He replied by telling a story he heard from a friend about a man who had contracted the virus from a blood transfusion; within a year both the man and his wife had died. "I'm not sure I should tell this," Reagan said. "You should tell it," responded Howard Baker. "It's you. It shows the feeling you have for people in trouble...