Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moments in which O'Neill allows Edmund "the touch of a poet", the artistic leanings present in O'Neill himself at the time the play is set, the writing is some of the best of the play. Stuhlbarg rises to the occasion with an intoxicating conviction and a fine control of intonation and gesture belying his top-notch training. His handling of the monologues describing Edmund's time at sea, and his recitation of the Decadent authors Edmund reads, are some of the finest, most piercing moments of the evening. The moments immediately proceeding these, where Stuhlbarg performs a drunken...
...television appearances just before last week's voting, he looked pale and stiff, but an old back injury often makes him move awkwardly. Doctors working for U.S. intelligence agencies tried some long-range diagnosis and concluded that Yeltsin probably was not suffering a recurrence of ischemia. More likely a touch of flu or another virus, they thought. But some Russian officials were told it was heart trouble...
...also acted as host of a nature series to be aired on the Discovery Channel this fall. Friends hoped she was rallying. "She didn't get a fair deck of cards," Sundlun says sadly. "But she handled it with incredible grace and dignity. She was a light touch in a dark world...
...place for me at lunchtime on my first day of work. At precisely 12 noon, I joined the rest of the lab downstairs at the university cafeteria. To my horror I found only some oily substance resembling beef (which, at the time, I would not touch) and overcooked oily potatoes. I thought I was not being too demanding when I said all I wanted was a simple sandwich. Little did I know.... I ended up in a nearby bar with a very large, very oily tuna sandwich. I brought my meal back to the table amidst stares, which only grew...
...hotel business," says Bjorn Hanson, head of hotel-industry practice at Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm. "He has demonstrated that in what he has done with Disney, Marriott and Trump. He's done something different from what anyone expected. It's just sort of a Midas touch...