Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...said he. "I have had a great deal of experience with him." Bob Taft's succinct characterization of Chester Bowles gets general approval despite the fact that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked in the diplomat's pouch of tact, he made up for with a bottomless bag of ideas, a gift of gab and unswerving earnestness for his causes...
...Latin Quarter, is $7; a highball averages about $1.25. New York has less convention-tickling cheapness than Chicago and more variety than Los Angeles, but a lack of the good-time-Charleyism of San Francisco. While New York probably has more nightclub activity than any European city, it cannot touch the vulgarity of Hamburg or the competitive, nuder-than-thou spirit of Paris, where G-strings are worn only by fiddles, and one hilariously surrealist female statue-at the Port du Salut-has a heart-shaped chamber carved in her left breast, in which two white mice play...
...extraordinary miscellany of New York's night life, no club can touch the Latin Quarter-no, not with a tenfoot pole, for sheer expensive tawdriness. Unlike the Copacabana, which concentrates on headliners (Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis Jr.) and surrounds them with half a dozen pretty chorines and vegetation by Goodyear, the Latin Quarter spends its budget on quantity, on big casts, on halfway talents and halfway nudes. A fanfare brings out the girls-girls dressed in balloons, girls dressed in sequins, girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After...
...selling touch was matched by his talent for promotion and advertising. He instituted the annual Neiman-Marcus fashion design awards, which draw top designers from New York and Paris to the heart of Texas to show their originals. In his self-appointed role as the omninventoried merchant prince, Marcus window-shops Europe with his camera in search of ideas, on one trip spotted a French silk housecoat that he copied this year in chinchilla. Price: $7,950. "We haven't sold any yet," he admits, "but we've had a couple of inquiries. I like...
Doubtless a touch of hypochondria makes the whole world kin and guarantees moments of sympathetic laughter. But when hypochondria shifts to fancied heart disease, it is easier to be farcical than funny and the baby jokes get more and more unruly as the papa joke lies feebly wasting away. When at last sex gains admittance, the show takes on more life and produces some funny moments. But moments only; Send Me No Flowers, as a whole, is geared too low, pushed too hard and stretched...