Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-line sentence sprinkled with semi-colons--that it couldn't possibly be a more loyal version. But where "Clueless" successfully looked to a new world ripe for the axing, McGrath's "Emma" creates an uncomfortable mix by updating an old world with more simplified satire and a touch of modern sensibility...
...undo a city. The very group that gave us the word assassin--a secret band of loyalists gathered around Hasan i Sabbah, the "Old Man of the Mountain," in Persia 900 years ago--mastered the basic law of terror: that even the smallest threat can ripple out to touch those a thousand miles away. Iago gave us the evidence: plant uncertainty in a shaky mind, and suspicion spreads like blood across a handkerchief...
...silver. And the meaning of the Olympics is that it puts things in a different perspective, in which sprites become giants and heroes become people once again. But the malign calculation of the bomb gave all such shifts a deadly tilt, as if to invert the Shakespearean affirmation: one touch of malice makes the whole world spin...
...Dyken was the most pleasant surprise on the underdog U.S. team, which, spurred on by roars from an unabashedly patriotic hometown crowd, captured 13 gold medals, more than three times as many as their nearest competitors, the Russians. Two of theirs belonged to Alexander Popov, who came in a touch ahead of American Gary Hall Jr. in both the men's 100-m and 50-m freestyle...
...Fall and played Anne Rice's Louis as a vampire without a cause. He's good at it, but in Hollywood there are a million broody hunks; Pitt has the primacy but not the patent. Paltrow could be something different, maybe unique. She could bring elegance, lightness of touch, pedigree--what used to be called class--back to American movie acting. She has shown glimpses of it in earlier work, as Pitt's anxious wife in Seven and as the ultimate prom date in The Pallbearer. But now Paltrow has a movie all her own. She plays, beautifully, the title...