Word: touchings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Upon reading Michael Duffy's "Cheney in Twilight," I realize how out of touch the media seem to be. I am no fan of Cheney's, but his vice presidency has been a political footnote. Only the media are hyping the Libby story. Compared with the scandals of the Clinton Administration, this one seems mild. It's barely a blip on most Americans' radar screen. Ed Lybrook, Cincinnati, Ohio...
...inveterate traveler Piero della Francesca, who, after centuries of being overlooked, is now considered one of the masters of the early Renaissance. Art historian Carlo Bertelli says Piero was appreciated at the time for his innovative way with perspective, but he is now also prized for his "enigmatic" touch. "He is a painter of enormous clarity, but also of great reflection," says Bertelli. "You could say that it was necessary that he 'slept' in these centuries so that he could be rediscovered." The most impressive gathering ever of his work, "Piero della Francesca and the Italian Courts," runs from March...
...Upon reading Michael Duffy's "Cheney in Twilight," I realize how out of touch the media seem to be. I am no fan of Cheney's, but his vice presidency has been a political footnote. Only the media are hyping the Libby story. Compared with the scandals of the Clinton Administration, this one seems mild. It's barely a blip on most Americans' radar screen. Ed Lybrook, CINCINNATI, OHIO...
...Europe Tightens Its Belt Your story [Feb. 26] noted that statistician Enrico Giovannini is upset that people question official European inflation statistics; he claims that people have some "terrible problems of perception." Is it possible he has lost touch with reality? He is welcome to stay in my house for a month and do some accounting. Products such as cars, refrigerators and new television sets are out of our reach - we are only hoping that our old ones will last 10 more years. We go to a restaurant once in three months, and this year we have decided...
...King Arthur, knows his male audience, and knows that they like how-to movies on survival against all odds. So he spends plenty of screen time showing Swagger at work: cauterizing his own bullet wound, driving backward off a bridge into a river, planting napalm (a nice Vietnam touch) in an enemy compound. Indeed, the film is best at giving instructions in the assembling and detonation of weapons of movie distraction. And Wahlberg, so muscled up he looks as if he's ready to explode, is serious and committed to the genre. We happen to be in a period when...