Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Roast chicken, covered in the juice from a squeezed lemon, generously garnished with tarragon, thyme, salt, pepper and a touch of crushed garlic, roasted potatoes, Bass Ale; linguine with pesto; leafy Romaine lettuce, green, red, yellow peppers, carrots, tomatoes exploding with color and taste covered in a homemade balsamic vinaigrette; steak with inserted garlic cloves, New Jersey corn on the cob, fried and sauteed mushrooms and onions, baked potatoes--dinner for Chrissakes...
Despite two quick Crimson touch-downs, Yale defeats Harvard 27-14 in the 63rd annual game. Attendance was so heavy that cars blocked streets for half a mile up Mass...
...mind-stretching rather than soul-numbing, an intellectual carnival rather than a solemn observance of eternal truths." I add--and would be surprised if my classmates did not agree--that the Harvard experience became a way of seeing, a way of thinking, a way of feeling, that would somehow touch and shape almost everything we would do thereafter...
...Imperial China, the royal physician was forbidden to touch the Emperor directly. A princeling would attach a long red thread to the Emperor's wrist, and the physician would grasp the thread, feeling the Emperor's pulse at a respectful distance. Governing Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese sovereignty at midnight on June 30 will require the same exquisitely sensitive touch: an ability to understand Beijing from a distance, to sense what its leaders want and what they will tolerate...
...Kowloon Tong. He is aiming at broad political satire, and nearly any target will do. Both the Mullards are contemptible. She is a snob about all things British who calls the Chinese "Chinky-Chonks" and tells her host at a Chinese restaurant, "Nothing personal, but we don't touch Chinese food. Never did. All the grease, all the glue. And it's always so wet. Makes me want to spew." Bunt, for his part, is a pathetic mama's boy who can find release and some measure of independence only with Hong Kong bar girls, "the happy hello-goodbye...