Word: touche
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Perhaps indicative of how out of touch the A.M.A. is was its surprised reaction to the furor that the Sunbeam deal provoked. "People are too willing to think something sinister is going on here," complains Larry Jellen, the A.M.A.'s vice president of marketing. "Our intentions are exceptionally honorable." Maybe so, but the A.M.A. might have found it instructive to do a case history. Back in the 1950s the organization retreated from another health-product-endorsement program out of liability concerns...
...they tried. They even dusted off a few patriotic slogans from the past. But somehow, "Workers of the World, Unite!" just doesn't have the same ring anymore. And the old czarist favorite, "Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationhood," lacks that all-important democratic touch. In their report "Russia in Search of an Idea," the Commission delivers a lot of weighty analysis ? try ploughing through chapters like "The Distribution of Metaphors Related to the Understanding of the National Idea" or "The Ideology of Language and the Language of Ideology" ? but not an original notion to be found. Now Boris is left...
...this is just the writer, Brian Helgeland, and the director, Richard Donner, having their little misleading joke. For we soon see that underneath the crazy bluster, there is a certain woozy sweetness about Jerry, something suggesting that he is in occasional touch with rationality. Alice (Julia Roberts), the Justice Department attorney he's spying on, notices it too. She's uncommonly patient on the several occasions when he bursts out of the shadows and intrudes on her otherwise orderly life, babbling--well, yes--Conspiracy Theory...
...this standard, a lot of this novel is neat. But a touch of what passes for normal behavior might have set all the madness in a more convincing context. As it stands, nearly everyone in Already Dead seems, well, already dead...
...same age as Sarah, 29, and was starting to feel old and out of touch with the rough-edged music scene. Now I can listen to the radio again! ELIZABETH VAN RIJ London...