Word: touchingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While the Middle Eastern desk thus managed to impart to New York traffic a touch of Middle Eastern inefficiency, a recent Czech broadcast made it sound superhumanly efficient. "We must not forget to mention the buses, as they are called here for short . . . They all have one strange quality in common . . . There is only one person, a single man, who not only drives the bus but also takes the fares, makes change, opens and closes the doors . . . And yet he certainly does not run down any more pedestrians than the driver in Paris, London or Prague, who only drives...
They had to be shown everything: how to turn on a faucet, how to flush a toilet. When they were told to take showers, one boy took his with all his clothes on. When they were served ham on their first day, not one child would touch it until a teacher explained in Navajo that it was cooked meat...
...patron. For production in the close academic air of Columbia University, he had composed a compact little two-act opera called The Medium, and it had gone on Broadway. It was a grim and eerie story of an old faker who finally, at one of her seances, feels the touch of one of the spirits she has pretended to reach for so many years, and consequently goes mad. It was hardly a cheery subject; moreover, it was all 'opera. Every line and word was sung, and its music yielded nothing at all to Broadway's cotton-candy musical...
Faye is prepared to talk about anything on TV "as long as it's not too heavy," and she has imposed only a slight self-censorship: "The things I don't touch are people's personal lives. And I never rap people or anything, because I don't think I'm in a position...
...remarkably pretty, by movie standards, nor a remarkably good singer or dancer, has a vividly unique personality in a town that tends to reduce beauty and talent to mass-produced patterns. Watching her in action has some of the fascination of waiting for a wildly sputtering fuse to touch off an alarmingly large firecracker...