Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that cigarettes are addictive and have been pointedly marketed at kids for years. The confession signaled the first real break from the industry's see-no-evil posture. Reportedly, the event prompted North Carolina Governor James Hunt to call his friend Bill Clinton. The White House then got in touch with Mississippi's Moore to ask if talks with the industry might prove productive...
...cheap floppy disks, making it vastly simpler to shuttle images between the camera and a computer. When it hits stores this summer, Mavica will boast a suite of other features: a zoom lens, a small preview and playback screen and four picture-tinting options. In a nicely anachronistic touch, the camera can sepia-tone any image at the push of a button, using 20th century technology to create an image that looks as if it's from the 1890s...
...nothing can compare to the theatrical feat achieved by Karen Mason. Ably filling the shoes of Elaine Stritch, the original Joanne, Mason is sultry and sardonic and performs "Ladies Who Lunch" with a touch of elegance...
MOVIES . . . THE PILLOW BOOK: As a birthday present each year, little Nagiko's father would write in elegant Japanese calligraphy, on the child?s face. Twenty years later, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) tries to duplicate, erotically, the touch of her father's brush. She challenges her lovers to write their lust all over her body. Then she finds a handsome Englishman (Ewan McGregor) who convinces her that she should do the writing, on his body. "Any Peter Greenaway (Drowning by Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover) film is a complex word-and-picture game -- of stories within stories...
...latest, but surely not the last, case in point is Speed 2: Cruise Control, unworthy successor to the last action movie that ran as much on wit as it did on special effects. That film was in touch, however goofily, with some of our everyday anxieties--a runaway bus on a screwed-up freeway is not entirely beyond our ken. At the very least we can imagine being caught in the resulting traffic...