NBC, Wednesdays at 8, starting Oct. 4. "GILMORE GIRLS" A gentle, quirky multigenerational drama with a light touch about a mother and her daughter in a Connecticut town.
From Chilean director Pablo Larrain, a film with a light touch about a heavy subject: the 1988 plebiscite that eventually led to the ousting of murderous US puppet and tin-pot dictator Augusto Pinochet.
With two turbochargers, fuel economy depends largely on how heavily one's foot hits the accelerator; with a light touch, I averaged about 18 m.p.g.
After Donald publicly and persistently questioned President Obama's birthplace late last year, it was Ivanka who appeared on The View and, with a light touch, dispelled rumors about interfamily turmoil and calmed everyone down.
Some young Formspring users say they strive for a light touch in answering questions about their relationships (hookups, that is, or "hu" in online parlance).
Her last article, which appeared in The Times in October, brought a light touch to her musings about losing her hair as a result of chemotherapy.
Bennett's special talent was his translation of the mundane into tragicomic dramas, and he was able to employ his characteristic light touch even when writing about intellectual heavyweights such as Wittgenstein or Kafka.
It isn't the byproduct of ambition or of an office-culture experiment; it has to do with handling heavy thoughts with a light touch, and being realistic about the difficulties of self-improvement.
And just as these qualities make their full effect when a sonnet is read aloud, so Desiderio's art, which is about light, touch and modesty of scale, makes most sense when seen live.
"Lanford has a light touch when he's talking about these things," Ms. Bonney said, "but the time is right to talk about what it's like to lose your sense that you can change things".
(It's worth noting, also, that Lenny Bruce made an appearance last night, in the person of Steve Cuiffo, doing a version of the above bit. A crazy show!) While navigating these elaborate and often fraught ideas, Lehman consistently applies a light touch, perfect for a book about songs with lyrics such as: "The eyes, the arms, the mouth of you,/ The east, west, north, and south of you".
