Word: touche
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Opponents take note: Don't touch the Crimson nets...
...despair. The beach dwellers fish, steal a little marijuana from an illicit plantation and work on their tans. Eventually, perhaps because everyone has read Lord of the Flies, things fall apart nastily. But even this calamity, which involves blood and dead people (the pot growers lose patience), does not touch the survivors. They grab sandals and rucksacks and move on. Richard reports all this a year later from London, where he is tethered to an unspecified job. His tone is one of mild regret, which seems to be the author's view as well, though that's hard...
Basil penetrated against the Yale defense and gave the ball up to Seanor for the layup. But rather than going up with the shot, Seanor left a beautiful touch pass for Feaster who finished off the break to the roar of the fans...
...Crimson's field general has been combining a fine shooting touch with eye-opening passing all season, and last night was no different. She did not let her own achievements, however, outshine her team's accomplishment...
...Hoeg's best-selling novel, Smilla Jaspersen has given her professional life over to the frozen music of mathematics, her private life over to bone-chilling isolation. The set of Smilla?s face, the carriage of her body, as Julia Ormond plays her, says, ?Don?t ask, don?t touch.? She relents -- angry at the show of weakness -- for just one person. That is a lonely little boy named Isaiah, who lives in her apartment building. One day Smilla comes home from work and finds Isaiah dead, the victim of a fall from their building?s rooftop. An accident...