Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From Nairobi to Hong Kong to Bangkok, "the film did touch millions of people in all different languages," McGraw says...
...veteran artist who has had eight years to think about what she wanted to say, Smith should have been able to come up with something better than a cartoony, colonial-era take on cannibalism as a metaphor for issues of survival. Listening to such painfully out-of-touch music from Smith, as well as these other pop standouts from the past, is enough to cure the worst case of nostalgia...
...regional party apparatus in Oryol, becoming chief of ideology. He was also tapped by the party's Central Committee to go to Moscow. Instead of settling behind a desk, Zyuganov was sent around the Soviet Union to check on party work, an experience that he says put him in touch with the country's problems. In 1990 he broke with then party leader Mikhail Gorbachev and helped found a hard-line Communist Party based in Russia...
Like a lot of other American tourists, O.J. Simpson came to England hoping to sample a few things he says he can't get at home: civility and fair play, for starters. And perhaps a touch of class--a genteel reception at the Oxford Union would be a welcome contrast to Simpson's pariah status...
...with any Lovett collection, this one has its share of the funky-flaky. The opener, (You Can Have My Girl but) Don't Touch My Hat, finds the Texan in a possessive frenzy about his "John B. Stetson." Promises, meanwhile, is naked Lyle, skin flayed, soul raw--with grief that could be whispered from a jail cell or an unquiet grave. The melody is plain, the guitar accompaniment plaintive: the song enshrouds you in its desperate beauty...