Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their molehole quarters, Bulli and his men sleep, lounge, eat in a special mess hall (no highly seasoned or gas-forming foods). They keep in touch with their families by phone (most frequent request: bring laundry to the base), often find, as one officer says, that alert duty is usually the time that "your furnace at home goes out or the dog gets lost, or your wife gets moody on the phone." There is no time for boredom. Some sit in seclusion in locked-door study rooms, poring over target data (they never discuss targets with other crews; no crew...
...time for his ham equipment only on occasional weekends back home in Manhattan. But late in January Ray came home for a week's vacation. On Feb. 6, two satellites, Explorer VII and Sputnik III, were scheduled to come into range about 1 a.m. He got in touch with Perry, and the two boys tried again. At 12:55 a.m., Soifer transmitted a prearranged code with about 300 watts of power on 21.011 megacycles. After 20 seconds he stopped and listened while Klein transmitted for 20 seconds from Bethesda. They continued this alternating transmission until...
...woman; and despite being often fashioned of cliches, hers-like that of Restoration-comedy worldlings-is an authentic attitude. But just as Restoration comedy can grow tiresome in constantly pursuing sex for pleasure. The Good Soup begins to flag in constantly pursuing it for pay. For the light touch to win out over the spotted truth, Marie-Paule's career needs more amusing variety, or she herself needs a sense of humor, or Playwright Marceau a livelier wit. Yet, in addition to piquant staging and bright performances, notably by Actress Gordon and Mildred Natwick, The Good Soup...
Once More, With Feeling. In the screen adaptation of the Broadway comedy, Yul Brynner tends to break arms instead of tickling funny bones, but the late Kay Kendall shows that not only was she a lovely clown, but one with a touch of genius...
Once More, With Feeling. The Broadway comedy loses some of its intimate wickedness in cold celluloid, but offers a last look at the late Kay Kendall, a lovely clown with a touch of genius...