Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell you, the Pentagon is not in touch with reality on this so-called question of fraternization. I mean, get real: you're still dealing with human beings...
...think people are pretty good at hiding the fact that times are not as good as we'd like them to be," he says. Sean Love, a 26-year-old movie post-production worker, couldn't agree more. He smiles. He knows what happens to bubbles when you touch them. His humble Toyota Corolla is outside, well apart from the BMWs and the Porsches parked in the dark beyond the twinkling trees...
...Backbone of America" project, as we call it, grew out of the 1996 presidential campaign and our correspondents' frustration at how the candidates--and the press that covered them--were growing increasingly out of touch with the voters. We decided to look for the stories the media were missing on Highway 50 because it was anything but an interstate. A two-lane road for most of its path, it literally becomes Main Street in small town after small town. For two months our journalists have been roaming up and down those Main Streets, taking the pulse of America. And over...
...across the Potomac from Washington. There was a lot of fanfare, as there always is when journalists gather to celebrate themselves. The Freedom Forum sank $50 million into the Newseum, and it shows. You can't turn around without bumping into some shiny chunk of high-tech hardware: touch-screen computers, Cinerama-style theaters and a video wall so large--126 ft. long, 10 1/2 ft. high--that it could theoretically accommodate 300 couch potatoes at the same time. Reporters love the Newseum, of course, but so do the schoolkids who come by the busload. This is more than just...
...Spanish guitarist who redesigned his beloved instrument, adding four strings, to accommodate his technical prowess; of cancer; in Murcia, Spain. Fans took to Yepes' theme song to Rene Clement's Forbidden Games (1951), but his peers never accepted his 10-stringed fingerboard--despite the enhanced resonance under his deft touch...