Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cover the tax bill of this year's investment banker. "Wall Street is totally out of context with general industry," says Johnson. "The average person is worried about the increase in the cost of living, and Wall Street is taking a quantum leap. It is so out of touch with the environment people work...
Communities became virtual communities; living with one another meant living in touch with one another; the American impulse to create civic associations that so impressed Tocqueville as the central feature of democracy now made its home in cyberspace, which imposed a new class system on the old. Over the disintegrated boundaries of time and space, chess players found fellow chess players, militia groups new members, religions converts, husbands wives, teenagers...
...older, world-weary image--a touch of gray at the temples, a wistfulness for waylaid innocence--that made Mastroianni a worldwide star. As the Dolce Vita gossipist, the moviemaker in Fellini's great 8 1/2 (1963) and the writer in Michelangelo Antonioni's La Notte (1961), he moved like a man in perpetual postcoital ennui, elevating spiritual passivity to a metaphysic and a fashion statement. "Mastroianni" became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who's been...
...little story, about the growing respect of the two women, onto the dreadfully edifying drama of the Sands campaign, including his election to Parliament on his deathbed. There's a power in these scenes that the rest of the film--a glum First Moms' Club--can't touch...
...played by Debbie Reynolds with that devastating blend of vagueness about life's little details and sharpness about her child's shortcomings that has driven generations of middle-class American kids half crazy. How is it that Call Waiting baffles these aging ladies while they retain their unerring touch for their offspring's hot buttons...