Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, most Harvard students don't need a judge or jury to tell us what we quickly learned upon arrival. Shoddy advising starts with apathetic and out-of-touch first-year proctors, continues with large departments that don't assign advisers and comes to a head with Houses that don't even bother to replace already apathetic and mismatched advisers who have quit without warning. With the murder-suicide, the Harvard community realized amid tragedy that failure to provide adequate advising can have disastrous consequences--not just for those who "slipped through the cracks," but for their roommates, housemates...
...began my quest for just the right accouterments. Wine, bottle opener and glasses came first. Then I went for high quality tobacco. (I don't smoke; it's like the toaster oven--just for show.) Then I got fresh-cut flowers, and paper-white perennials to add a feminine touch. The next phase attacked the lighting, an often-ignored aspect of interior design. My blue Christmas lights circling the ceiling and numerous candles have encouraged lots of Hugh Hefner jokes from visitors. But that's the look I wanted...
Since then, I have been fascinated with designing the space around me. In math class, during elementary school, I would daydream about rearranging the room. In fact, it might have been my desire for a new environment to which I could give my personal touch that had me packing my bags for boarding school...
...reach out to Jewish people all across the world. Chabad has a unique touch of reaching out to the unaffiliated Jew, who would not usually go [to any synagogue]," Scheiner said...
...clothing and linen specialty store chain, based in Canada, has 35 stores in the U.S. from coast to coast--obviously, the New England aesthetic is spreading (no shopper need be without his or her duvet cover). Also, belying its image, the store lacks that cold "look but don't touch" Victorian mentality. Signs literally plead with customers to "Please Touch," noting that "to fully appreciate the beauty of our prints, we invite you to unfold, examine, and explore their many patterns and textures...