Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purchase of the leather gloves from Bloomingdale's, Shapiro and Cochran decided to try the gloves on for themselves. "They felt small to me," Cochran says, "and we both told [Simpson], 'They're going to ask you to put the gloves on.'" It was the kind of dramatic touch Darden liked. Says Cochran: "Sure enough, just like we said, Darden said, 'Your honor, we'd like to have a little demonstration...
...drug of choice is much less threatening; it's old movies. For he's also the kind of film geek who can identify Rio Bravo from a few snippets overheard on the TV set in another room, or mouth all the dialogue from the last scene of Touch of Evil as he sits entranced before the screen in a revival house...
Take punk rock. In the '70s, when it was born, it seemed to be the ultimate in musical rebellion. Punk was fast, aggressive rock performed by people who, through their raw sound and outrageous attire, were bent on making adults feel like out-of-touch geeks. The seminal British punk band the Sex Pistols mocked the monarchy and led fans in nihilistic chants of "No future," while their countrymen and contemporaries the Clash paid tribute in their music to the Sandinista rebels...
...movie lurking behind his public troubles. "The suspicion lingers that Woody Allen deserves a good spanking, and not from a cheerful prostitute," says Corliss. "But listen: humor and sentiment can triumph over stern morality any day. 'Mighty Aphrodite' reminds us that Allen is also a filmmaker with an acute touch for fools' romance...
Harvard, meanwhile, hopes to rebound from its touch loss to Cornell with a stronger showing in a non-league game versus Holy Cross, and it then returns to Ivy League against Princeton on October...