Word: touche
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...infatuated women. "Imagination," he said in one of his more phallocratic moments, "is intelligence with an erection." Aged nearly 70, in the hectic relief that followed the lifting of the siege of Paris, he averaged one sexual encounter a day--40 different women in five months, competing for the touch of what Hugo called his "lyre." Larger than life, he was almost larger than death: half a million people, the biggest funeral attendance since the death of Napoleon, followed his cortege to the freshly deconsecrated Pantheon, a building he detested and compared to a sponge cake. There he still lies...
...home as a possible "den of militant lesbians" or "drugged-out long-haired Red subversives," Marcus Wohlsen '98 simply shrugs, "It's mostly indicative of how different the ethos here is than the typical Harvard ethos--a certain lack of subtlety and sensitivity that shows how out of touch Harvard is with anything vaguely counter-cultural...
That may be so, but for those who are in touch, the Dudley Co-op is the place to be. For a mere $5,200 a year, room, board and a built-in community are for the taking. Extra benefits for members include Friday Happy Hours, the yearly lingerie study session in Lamont, and even their own "COOP." A film-making student a few years ago built an elaborate backyard henhouse for a movie he was making, but fellow co-op residents, concerned about the animals, allowed them all to escape. The chickens and VES concentrator may be gone...
Regardless of personal or partisan opinion, one must admit that President Clinton has fostered a "national dialogue" superbly. Talk shows devote considerable time to the dialogue, editorialists constantly opine on it and ordinary dining civilities regularly touch...
Another downside lies in the dependence of IP telephone companies upon the existing phone system. If local direct-dial and touch-tone phone service were not available nationwide, none of these firms could even offer their services...