Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whose birth seemed such a miracle after four miscarriages. You'll be abducted like your daughter and sold into a slave trade. She did not dare change her number. The Voice that tormented also held out the hope that Amy might yet be alive, trying to get in touch...
Computers have not replaced the human touch in TIME's research--that spark of humor, that willingness to make the extra effort. Time Chronicles editor Bruce Handy delights in using Nexis to track quirky statistical trends, such as last week's chart of the popularity of various presidential adjectives. (Clintonian, with 536 citations over 15 years, edged out Reaganesque, with 473). "I've never heard anyone at the center admit defeat," says Chicago bureau chief James Graff, a devoted fan. "Last month we requested information on a drug bust, date unknown, in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park. The faxes...
...easy as it looks. The problem for the writer is to balance a wit that doesn't dry the piece out against sentiments that don't turn it soggy. For the actors it lies in playing highly stylized dialogue while remaining in touch with recognizable human nature. For the director, energy is the issue: too much of it and everyone goes bucketing off in the direction of farce; too little of it and the audience starts admiring the scenery. Or, to put the whole tricky business simply, everyone has to stay grounded in reality while at the same time subtly...
...declare his love for Elinor. Whereupon she bursts into tears--not just tears but great, teacup-rattling sobs, a huge, whooshing release of long-suppressed emotions, both hers and ours. You feel like crying right along with her. You feel like laughing too. Mostly, though, you feel terrific, in touch with something authentic inside yourself...
...real Nixon was a tragicomic figure; he doesn't need Stone's demonizing or mythologizing touch. His saga, moreover, is familiar from a quillion docudramas and Saturday Night Live skits. It is also imprinted in the TV memories of Americans over 35. The President's bizarre farewell speech, nicely re-created by Hopkins, captures that spooky poignancy. Then as he boards Air Force One, Hollywood gives way to archive videotape, and we see the real Nixon with his implausible grin and victory wave of the arms--apotheosis and self-parody in one indelibly weird moment. For once, the gonzo director...