Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be the coolest summer camp. Her tailor father sews blouses for his girl; her mother provides sensible advice. The family's easy warmth seems endearingly ordinary here. By the end of the film it will be a miraculous memory, an image that Xiu Xiu can barely touch without getting burned...
...good. He simply took them at their own valuation, producing vivid epitomes of social standing as he did so. His portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, for instance, remains the definitive image of the late-Victorian equestrian male: superbly grave and self-contained, tall as a tree, and yet with a touch of carelessness in the flare of his buff hunting waistcoat and the dashing arabesque of paint with which, in a single loaded stroke, Sargent conveyed the fold of his breeches--a gesture as assured, in its way, as any brushstroke by de Kooning. With women Sargent was in his element...
Millions of moviegoers winced and smiled. The scene neatly captured their own late-'60s ambivalence toward the ever more synthetic landscape of their times. They loved their cheap, easy-to-clean Formica countertops, but envied--and longed for--the authentic touch and timelessness of marble and wood. The chord struck by that line in The Graduate underscored how much had happened in the six decades since the summer of 1907, when Leo Hendrik Baekeland made the laboratory breakthrough that would change the stuff our world is made...
...introduces Touch-Tone dialing...
...complications of their relationship. In fact, Hart maintains that she has been able to stay close to all of her River buds successfully, attributing this achievement to extracurriculars. Hart says, "Being involved in activities that include people from a lot of different Houses has allowed me to stay in touch with my friends on the River more...