Word: touche
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...These two vignettes could be the start of such a good movie. Instead, and alas, The Happening is the latest, most dispiriting indication that writer-director M. Night Shyamalan has lost the touch that made The Sixth Sense a suspense classic and his standing as a young master of creepiness in the grand Hitchcock tradition. He's just 37, but his best films are so far behind him, it's as if he's forgotten how he made them work...
...these are as many stores as we've ever had open. Overall, if the U.S. is going into recession it is a slight recession. You can very easily lose touch with the fact that this is still the strongest economy in the world by some distance. And we're quite confident that we will continue to grow sales in existing stores even in this very difficult climate. We're finding that our new stores are doing really well. Plus our new stores have the advantage of being fresh so we can open the very best stores we know...
...held onto." The new Italian owners of the Flatiron say they're in for the long haul and plan to seek city approval for a new project to illuminate the exterior by Vittorio Storaro, the Oscar-winning director of photography for Apocalypse Now and Little Buddha. Just a touch more glamour, perhaps, for the real-life publishing-company employees who occupy its offices - not to mention Peter Parker and his Daily Bugle colleagues...
...graduates of a world-renowned university and residents of the world’s last superpower, Rowling said, Harvard’s newest crop of alumni can touch the lives of others “simply by existing...
...rather than “faculty men” advise freshmen: “If the University is to make any real progress in cleaning the grimy spot of Freshman Advising from its escutcheon, something more better than seniors, who are interested in their own problems [and] out of touch with the Yard … will have to be found...