Word: touche
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Michelle helped give Obama an invaluable new base in Chicago politics, he helped her get back in touch with her home base. It was at the end of her first year as an associate at the law firm that she had been assigned to mentor Obama. In a now famous story, she at first refused to date him, feeling their work relationship would make a romance improper. But Obama's courtship helped her discover anew her childhood home on Chicago's Southside. Dates often took them to church basements and protests. "He could've gone to Wall Street; those offers...
...ruled the airwaves for the decade preceding that?) Is Microsoft indeed trying to harken back to a time when Windows was king, Google was a nonsense word and Apple was on the verge of extinction? And doesn't this show that Microsoft is out of touch with today's culture...
...Known for his bouffant wigs, silver platform shoes and etched-on eyebrows, Glitter became a household name in the 1970s with hits like I'm the Leader of the Gang and Do You Wanna Touch Me? In a recent interview with the Vietnamese newspaper Cong An Nhan Dan, he said that he would like to make a comeback - an unlikely prospect given that his former fans now have children they'd presumably like to protect...
...unto McCain what McCain had done unto him: hammer his opponent in a sustained, thematic way - not just a few tossed-away lines in a stump speech. That shouldn't be too difficult. An argument can be made that McCain is trigger-happy overseas and out of touch at home. In fact, Matt Welch made a convincing trigger-happy argument against McCain in Reason magazine - a libertarian publication - cataloging all the times over the past 20 years that McCain has overreacted to international crises, down to his recent ridiculous statement that the situation in Georgia was "the first probably serious...
...five apparatuses isn't contested. In Athens, the clubs, which look like a pair of brightly hued bowling pins, didn't make an appearance. This year, it's the bouncy ball that's missing. Rhythmic gymnastics is certainly mesmerizing, but Cirque de Soleil mixed with a touch of the Bolshoi doesn't deserve a spot at the Games. Similarly, a budding campaign to make yoga an Olympic discipline should be quashed...