Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After making its first six three-pointers, Harvard held a seven-point lead at halftime, 36-29. In the second half, the Crimson lost its scoring touch but kept up the defensive pressure and made its free throws in the stretch to gain...
...obvious area to look at." For now, the FBI is warning the rest of us. "We're concerned that there could be additional such letters still in the mail," agent Raymond Mislock said. "We would very much like anyone who identifies a similar piece of mail not to touch it or disturb it any way." The FBI said anyone who receives similar mail should notify their local police department or postal inspectors, or call the FBI's terrorism task force...
...Americans to throw them together, under pressure (the current President--Dan Aykroyd--is trying to implicate them in a scandal), and let them bicker their way out of trouble. This involves the former leaders in an improbable outside-the-Beltway odyssey. But in its course, they get in close touch with the reality behind the social-policy abstractions they're used to--a homeless family, gay-pride marchers, Elvis impersonators--not to mention their own better natures. We in turn get in touch with two wily comic actors, deftly exchanging well-crafted and knowing (one of the screenwriters worked...
...looking for M.D.s," Izzard explains. That's security-guard lingo for "mad dashers"--people who dart out of the crowd without warning and try to touch the star. In Buenos Aires, where the Evita crew spent its first five weeks of filming, M.D.s and other unruly fans were a big problem, and Izzard had to get the help of a six-man security detail. Budapest is more laid back--but so are the police. When the cameras roll, they too stare at Madonna...
...regarded this instant transformation from preacher to pitchman as tainted by a touch of hypocrisy. But now I realize that Evjue was simply a man ahead of his times. Far from violating the holiday spirit, the annual orgy of consumption we so often deplore is in fact a great gift we give to our way of life...