Word: touchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staging is spartan, with all the action taking place around a group of chairs and a single table, which serve as a shelter where battered women discuss--sometimes with more than a touch of melodrama--marital disputes. The disputes are reinacted with only minor scene changes...
This same mood characterized the politics ofthe period, most notably in the Classical Populismof Mikhailovsky and Lavrov. The intelligentsiaaimed to bridge the gap between themselves and thesoul of Russia, her peasantry, by "going to thepeople," to teach and to learn, to atone forlosing touch with the essence of their motherland.The culmination of this philosophy was a vastPopulist movement in the summer...
Consider the pace of Michele Ward, 26, and Kenneth Hoffman, 31, top executives at different Connecticut management-consulting firms. "The prime purpose of our answering machine at home is so we can keep in touch with each other," says Ken of their jammed schedules. For pleasure, they sail and "cook seriously together," whipping up veal Normandy or Persian duck in pomegranate sauce. They subscribe to four gourmet magazines and have a collection of 150 cookbooks. Most recent vacation: three weeks in Tahiti and Bora Bora. "Part of me would like children, but, practically speaking, I don't see how," says...
...second set with a 3-0 run on games to take the second set, 6-2. But in the final set, with the score tied in games, 4-4, Bradford earned a service break on what turned out to be her most effective weapon of the day, a touch drop-shot from the baseline...
After his stay at the Kennedy School, Pippert says he plans to jump back on to the bandwagon of political journalism. "I'm a bit out of touch with the American political scene," he acknowledges, "The last election I covered was the general election in Israel two years...