Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have been Forbes' 15 minutes of fame. But that has not kept the rivalry between Forbes and Dole from taking on the quality of shadowboxing. Both Forbes campaign manager Bill Dal Col and Dole campaign manager Scott Reed were once Kemp staffers, and they have kept in touch over the years. Early on, Dal Col would routinely let Reed see the text of Forbes' ads before they ran, "but no more," he says. "Things have got too hot. They're crazed about the ads." Reed notes that Forbes was the first to go negative, and with misleading information...
...discussed this with other universities and it seemed like a good way of getting in touch with most students," Schnare said. "We don't like to see people in our office on registration...
...awake on Sunday morning were local parents with their down bundled children and their sweatered terriers. These early risers walked into the Quad and stopped, tilting their heads like confused pigeons. They approached the Easter Island god in deference and squinted, beholding the gleaming object. Children reached out to touch the indifferent god; the inspiration of a millenium-old design spoke to them here, brought from halfway across the world...
...three designer suits to wear to his swearing in. He finally decided to have Polaroids taken to see which suit would photograph better. The winner: a $2,600 single-breasted charcoal-gray Brioni with a brown pencil stripe. Haberdasher Wilkes Bashford, a longtime Brown outfitter, provided the final, Caesarean touch at a preinauguration party: a wreath of laurel. "I take my job pretty seriously," said Bashford, "and I missed one accessory." The ebullient Brown...
...VIOLENCE? WE GOT 'EM FOR you, and in the King's English. As every teacher knows, kids won't touch Shakespeare unless he is made all hot and gaudy and R-rated. So let's get with it, moviemakers! If the Bard writes about a Moor who loves a Venetian lady, show them naked in bed together, and have Iago woo Emilia from the rear. If the subject is villainy on a royal scale, as in Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would...