Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oneself and others. Says a seventh-grade girl: "The guy will ask you up front. If you turn him down, you're a bitch. But if you do it, you're a ho. The guys are after us all the time, in the halls, everywhere. You scream, 'Don't touch me!' but it doesn't do any good." A Rhode Island Rape Center study of 1,700 sixth- and ninth-graders found 65% of boys and 57% of girls believing it acceptable for a male to force a female to have sex if they've been dating for six months...
...Bush's sweeping education proposals for the state. "I think his experiences with Liberty City really shaped his thinking," says Beryl Roberts-Burke, head of the Florida Conference of Black State Legislators. Says Bush: "I would walk into the class, and a kid would come up to me and touch my skin or feel my hair, and it happened every day I was there. They had not touched a white person or felt their hair. This just blew me away. What kind of a place do we live in where a six-year-old child hasn't touched a white...
...room, and when the man took his hand, "I didn't feel like a busboy or a Hispanic. I didn't feel like I was 17. I just felt like a person." The next night Juan pressed through the crowd after Kennedy's victory speech, hungry for one more touch. He put his hand out. Kennedy took it. And Juan felt a flash of heat...
...dramas, the most entertaining, the most amusing and sometimes the most gripping thing it can show us is people sitting and talking to one another, and to us. McLuhan argued that speech is the richest form of human communication because it involves several of the senses--sight, sound, touch, etc.--and that speech on TV is the nearest equivalent yet to the face-to-face variety. Hence the ubiquitous talk show. Hence hosts with an uncanny ability to gaze into the camera and connect emotionally with viewers. And hence our feeling that we know Johnny Carson or Oprah Winfrey...
...first and most influential acting teacher, Stella Adler, thought him "the most keenly aware, the most empathetic human being alive," yet thought his commitment to acting was, at best, "touch and go." But the work, the community he found among New York's eager young actors, gave shy, sly Bud Brando two things he never had before--a sense of identity and a sense of direction...