Word: touched
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Achieving this goal requires students in particular to discard their cloaks of complacency and apathy and take an active role in a crisis that will most certainly touch their lives, if not now then certainly in the future...
That distrust, which runs in two directions, seems to touch everything in the district. Not long ago, Latino residents decided to rename one of the elementary schools after the late activist Cesar Chavez, as a mark of cultural pride. But on the day of the dedication, supporters of the name change showed up at the school to find a group of blacks there too--protesting. They thought the Latinos wanted to honor Julio Cesar Chavez, the boxer, and they disapproved. Recalls Matias Varela, a Hispanic resident who heads the county's arts council: "It was a total misunderstanding between...
...Magazine technicians "perhaps reconstructed too much," Newsweek spokeswoman Karen Wheeler said of the Topol's touch. "But it was not done to mislead the public or to do any inappropriate dental work." Okay, but will Newsweek be there when all the little McCaugheys need braces...
...find a reason to be immersed in a movie-theater environment. "The future of home theater is in digital TV," says Dataquest analyst Jonathan Cassell. At the same time, DVD, the next-generation successor to videotapes and CDs that is hitting the market, promises superior audiovisual quality. The final touch: futuristic flat-panel TVs that hang as elegantly on a wall as a Renoir...
...love story would work just fine standing alone. Meg Ryan does a magnificent job breathing life into Anastasia, giving the starry-eyed princess the touch of quirkiness that she needs to be believable. But there is little character development for the heroine--all her emotions are more asserted than dramatized...