Word: touchings
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...certainly portrayed the military aspect, but his bombastic approach sometimes neglected the piece’s subtleties. Both Amy T. Wu ’09 and Darius W. Weil ’09 made their HPS debuts playing compositions by Maurice Ravel. Wu’s light touch and Weil’s technical facility brought out the fanciful Frenchness of Ravel’s music. At the end of the evening, the audience did not leap to its feet, but its response was certainly enthusiastic. A promising opening to the season, the Harvard Piano Society’s Fall...
...dozen moviegoers with skillful turns in low-budget indies (Election, You Can Count on Me). Lane had given what looked like, and should have been, a breakout performance opposite Robin Williams in The Birdcage in 1996. But no. "Nothing. I had two offers," says Lane, with a touch of pardonable bitterness. "One was, I was asked to play Mr. Magoo, which I turned down. The other was a film called Mousehunt. That was it." Nobody questioned his talent. They just couldn't figure out what to do with it. When The Producers came calling, it was hardly a sure thing...
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...Touch is a basic requirement for optimum health: touch-deprived babies, both animal and human, do not develop normally. This need does not diminish with age, but older people often have fewer opportunities to give and receive health-promoting physical contact. I urge you as strongly as possible to find ways to touch and be touched as you move through life. One way, a perfectly good one, is to treat yourself to massage on a regular basis...
...older and living with a partner, try to express your needs, especially if they have changed. See if you can find areas of common ground where you can exchange some form of nurturing touch...