Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a touch of Uncle Jerry about the President when he talked of Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter last week. Reagan was a professional performer. "That's been his life," mused Ford in the Oval Office. "He's been very skillful in picking several very emotional issues," he continued. "And the combination of his performance and the use of certain issues has generated a lot of public support... but I certainly hold no grudge against my Republican opponent, and I don't believe he does as far as I am concerned. I can remember some political...
...scandal threatened to touch still others in Washington. At week's end Gardner said that in 1972 or '73 she had stumbled upon Alaska Democratic Senator Mike Gravel making love to Ray on a houseboat owned by former Congressman Kenneth Gray of Illinois, Ray's ex-boss. Gravel denied the accusation. Meanwhile, Ray preened in a strange celebrity status that made her seem a combination of Virginia Hill and Typhoid Mary. She attracted stares and journalists at every stop. But when she showed up at Duke Zeibert's last week, at least...
Giscard's measure, formally before the National Assembly after two years of preparation, is a favored part of his much-publicized program to reform France into an "advanced liberal society." It is also his first move to touch the well-guarded French pocketbook. Giscard is well aware of the fact that as a nation, France has turned tax evasion into a national pastime, costing the government, by some guesses, $12 billion a year in uncollected revenues. It is estimated, for example, that the country's 2.3 million self-employed people declare only half of their income by such...
...townhouse. Now he has a massive electronic gate blocking the entrance to the ten-room house, gardens and pool that he shares with his second wife, Actress Marsha Mason, and his two daughters, Ellen, 19, and Nancy, 13. He gets his New York Times every Sunday to keep in touch -but the Times is not the New York he misses. "There's no ambience in Los Angeles," he complains, "and no sidewalks. No place to walk to, no strolling or window-shopping. I love sunshine, but there have been times when I've looked up into another...
Sympathy is not a necessary virtue in an excellent writer. In Miss Herbert, however, Stead reveals a touch of the sadist. She sets her victim up in revealing scenes and then dispatches her with hatpins of stainless prose. Miss Herbert expires totally unaware that she is leaking fatuous optimism, banalities and supercilious prejudice. In fact, her last recorded words are a threat to write an autobiography that "will open some eyes...