Word: touchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complete exposition of my frosh disasters would be only slightly longer than War and Peace, so I will just touch on the highlights, the "Nine Circles of Freshman Hell" that await the unwary traveler. True, I missed out on three of the circles; perhaps that's why I am still around to tell the tale...
...absence of strong ideological differences, images have become important: D'Amico's campaign has presented him as the rumpled, savvy pol with working-class roots and a common touch. Murphy plays the polished administrator, decisive and effective in the practice of a traditionally male profession...
...follow-up care and counseling, sometimes for as long as five years, to make sure they stay clean. A major treatment problem is to convince an addict that one resumption of drug use does not mean he will never shake his habit. Many recovering addicts do not stay in touch with follow-up programs, so no one knows whether or how long they stay off drugs. Thus the success of treatment programs is hard to measure. Though some claim success rates as high as 80%, Dr. Sidney Cohen, professor of psychiatry at UCLA, fears that nationwide only 40% of treated...
...sculpture as an act of hollowing, modeling and smoothing the "body" of a single mass ran counter to the pattern of 20th century sculpture, which was to construct from disparate parts a shape that did not need to be felt with the hands, one in which sight preceded touch. (Who ever wanted to stroke a Gonzalez or a David Smith?) His impulse to preserve the traditional values of carving and casting went back to his Yorkshire childhood...
...whole world." With North America for a start. Her first major U.S. film role was as Robin Williams' Italian girlfriend in 1984's Moscow on the Hudson, for which she took lessons to speak with an Italian accent. Since then, she has made four more movies, including the current Touch and Go and Extreme Prejudice, a Christmas release in which she has her first dramatic role, as a Mexican singer. Alonso, 29, does not worry about being stereotyped as a fiery Latina. With predictable confidence she says, "I can play the roles Meryl Streep plays." Wonder how her Polish...