Just a little more than two weeks to go before the grand reopening on April 8 of Symphony Space, that touchstone of culture on the Upper West Side at Broadway and 95th Street.
The sharp-tongued fool Touchstone (a rather glowery, intense Thomas Sadoski) is an object of particular fascination; Jaques fondles the red foam clown's nose that Touchstone bestows on him as if it were a mysterious talisman containing the essence of humanity that has somehow been denied him.
Mr. Sepinwall said in a telephone interview on Wednesday that Touchstone had been one of the publishers he met with when he was shopping his proposal for "The Revolution Was Televised" about a year ago, though the project was turned down then.
This is obviously the touchstone on which the book stands or falls, and for my money it succeeds absolutely.
But among those who insist on departing from that touchstone original, Christopher Wheeldon can now lay claim to one of the most compelling alternative versions with his new staging of "Swan Lake" for the Pennsylvania Ballet.
Now, six years later - I find myself looking for a touchstone on that day, an element or a moment that would connect me with that time.
With the novel a sensation and a touchstone on a scale that frightened her, Lee retreated to Monroeville.
And his borrowings don't even suggest an interventionist cinephilia that uses such classics as a touchstone on which to test modern mores.
The women's movement was just beginning, and so Gloria became not only my new friend, but also my touchstone on the many issues that were starting to confront us on the front lines of feminism.
After all, Levit's new recording of the Bach touchstone – on a three-CD set that also includes visionary, variation-style opuses by Beethoven and Frederic Rzewski – has already attracted favorable press notices.
Please!' ") Pepe Iglesias, a local food writer who was Roden's touchstone on the Asturian trip, had told her that there were now twenty-five serious young fusion chefs in Asturias, and after a few days' eating she ventured the opinion that that was perhaps more "creators" than a barely touristed province of a million people needed.
