Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawsuits have been filed, but University attorneys have been in touch with the attorney from Lowell Brewing Company to express Harvard's distaste for the beer's name, said Deputy General Counsel Robert B. Donin...
...Several years ago, soothsayers were predicting that catalog sales would cause the demise of shopping centers. But in 1997 catalogs accounted for $81 billion in retail sales--and shopping centers racked up more than $1 trillion. Shopping has always been a sensory experience; people like to touch what they buy. The shopping-center industry thrives and will survive because it provides the best consumer interaction with goods and services. JOHN RIORDAN, President International Council of Shopping Centers New York City...
...seen way too much of Michael Jordan and Princess Di in the media, but when cowboy actor Roy Rogers died, all we got was a small tribute [NOTEBOOK, July 20]. He should have been on your cover. Boy, are you out of touch! LINDA CRULL Conifer, Colo...
When the product of that fatal union, Rita, comes to Toronto to study, Victor (as he's now known) finds himself drawn to her by feelings not entirely fraternal. When a touch goes too far, he falls through the false bottom of the civilized world and into something atavistic. The outlines of classical tragedy have come to shiny, multicultural Yonge Street...
...York City's latest avant-garde theater phenomenon tries to prepare would-be patrons with a set of ground rules: "1) Stand. 2) Dress down. 3) Look up. 4) Touch. 5) No rules." Here's why: the audience stands in a cavernous room for the entire hourlong show, while a dozen or so performers soar overhead. Suspended on wires, they swoop and twirl, climb the walls, bounce in and out of the crowd. There's wind and a rainstorm (you get wet), strobe-light effects and pounding music. By the end, the aggressive performers have coaxed many in the crowd...