Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, the Crimson played closer to its preferred two-touch style...
...ball 25 yards to the 13, which set up Harvard's quickest drive of the game. On the first play after the turnover, Troy Jones received the hand off from Linden and swung left, using his breakaway speed to dart into the endzone for the first of his two touch-downs...
...Time Inc. has a joint venture with AOL to develop a health site called Thrive.) Case hopes for a service that is as clean, organized and trouble free as the manicured suburbs that surround AOL's Dulles headquarters. "There's an inside Silicon Valley syndrome that is out of touch with what consumers want," Case says. "Our market is everybody else." Internal research suggests "everybody else" could push AOL to 25 million members by 1999. Says Case, once a PepsiCo marketer: "We want to be the Coca-Cola of the online world...
...interest of making a comedy with broad appeal, "In & Out" not surprisingly goes for broad comedy almost every time-when an occasional touch of subtlety might have served just as well, if not better. Still, it succeeds in racking up laughs the old American way-from an Oscars ceremony featuring Matt Dillon as the amusingly air-headed movie star (apparently more a parody of Brad Pitt than of Tom Hanks) and a bad Mel Brooks-style spoof of the kind of inflated dramas that usually reap Oscar accolades, to a wedding recalling "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (which, alas, doesn...
...word "bubblegum" has stuck to Mariah for much of her career. In particular, the last few months of Lilith worship have opened up bounteous opportunities for ridiculing her brand of breezy pop. Sure, she will never touch a Joan Osborne or a Cassandra Wilson for innovation or craftsmanship, but she is just as capable in her element as Jewel or Sarah "I-will-remember-you-will-you-remember-me?" McLachlan are in theirs. Back off, you coffee-shop snobs...