Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buster seemed so solitary, so oblivious to sentiment, that no one could touch him or catch him. The classic Keaton climax is of Buster walking blithely down a Los Angeles street while a herd of women, cops--cows, even--chases after him. And when he is caught, when Boy and Girl end up married, it's not necessarily a happy ending. In the coda to College we see the couple as newlyweds, then as young parents, then as bickering old folks, then as names on their tombstones. Sometimes...
Jagsi, for one, has noticed this personal touch among her classmates...
Harvard also outchanced Cornell in the first half, taking 13 shots to the Big Red's two, but Harvard lacked the finishing touch then as well...
...sure predictor of a successful presidency. According to Duke University political scientist James David Barber, the most perfect blend of intellect and warmth of personality in a Chief Executive was the brilliant Thomas Jefferson, who "knew the importance of communication and empathy. He never lost the common touch." Richard Ellis, a professor of politics at Oregon's Willamette University who is skeptical of the whole EQ theory, cites two 19th century Presidents who did not fit the mold. "Martin Van Buren was well adjusted, balanced, empathetic and persuasive, but he was not very successful," says Ellis. "Andrew Jackson was less...
...chance to be one of the leaders of my class and stay in touch with my class after graduation," said Jeffrey I. Zaref '96, a history and science concentrator who has applied for the position...