Word: touched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only is the crowd entertained by rock songs during stoppages of play, but to begin the game, Princeton uses a classy version of America the Beautiful instead of the traditional national anthem. It could have been a nice touch had the music not skipped and as a result been cut off half-way through...
...This is no cartoon!" says Tony, a stereotypical body building Italian chef, trying to keep others in touch with reality in "Slaw and Order," a student-written lunchroom mystery, continuing performance in the Leverett Old Library this weekend. Reflecting back to "Scooby Doo" days, one remembers the key elements to a good cartoon mystery: clues (slowly revealed, usually by Velma), suspense, a climactic ending and a rockin' Mystery Machine. It is possible to accept a lack of the Mystery Machine, due to the size limitations at the Leverett Old Library, but, one leaves "Slaw and Order" with a bad taste...
Stereotypes--sophisticated, hi-fidelity stereotypes--are introduced, are belittled, and then skillfully revealed as vivid characters. We can see this in Sabbath's sexual escapades, which have a touch of the anthropological about them. Sabbath is shame-less enough to offer a girl in a detox clinic two quarts of vodka in return for sexual favors (while, mind you, he is ostensibly visiting his wrecked second wife drying up in said clinic), he is sharp enough to describe both his target and his wife with a commited, if not exactly compassionate, eye. This unblinking veracity is the source of Roth...
...people see the violin as a fresh, trendy, up-to-date instrument, that's fine with me," says Vanessa-Mae, whose avowed goal is to do for the electric violin what Jimi Hendrix did for the electric guitar. "If the music is good and well played, then it will touch anybody, anywhere." And if the music fails to touch audiences, there's always the video, which can be seen on VH1 and features Vanessa-Mae in tight hot pants, strolling saucily on the beach and looking for all the world like a Saigon B-girl circa...
...took the Lopezes to a city hospital for psychiatric counseling, and Awilda seemed to calm down somewhat. To O'Connor's dismay, however, she repeatedly avoided signing a release that would allow him to send his observations to the city agency. By last July she had dropped out of touch entirely...