The question of cultural appropriation is a touchy one for Gud, made even touchier by his mixed-race heritage—"My problem is I can't decide" on a racial identity, he tells me.
An Oklahoma senator, Tom Coburn, a Republican who is one of the most relentless budget hawks in Congress, kicked off the touchy dispute by saying that any additional disaster relief appropriated by Congress would have to be paid for by cutting other areas of the federal budget.
Mr. Spurlock approaches the touchy subject by picking a family of Mexican immigrants who are unassailably humble, hard-working and, except for the way they crossed the border, law-abiding.
(AP) MALAYSIA: ANWAR TRIAL ADJOURNS The sodomy trial of former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, which had resumed after a two-week recess, adjourned again as the judge continued to consider the politically touchy demand by the defense to call to the stand Mr. Anwar's most prominent accuser, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
Within this curious realm of sensory connection to the space around us and the images we witness daily is Touchy (2012) by Eric Siu.
It is not clear though whether the film's ban was provoked by a touchy Indian government led by the image-conscious Prime Minister Narendra Modi or because the home ministry was embarrassed.
What comes next may make the data-driven Googleplex look touchy-feely by comparison.
The first two chapters, rich in the argot of academic feminism, might be called touchy-feely by anyone wishing to be attacked as an oppressive, patriarchal, reactionary minion of evil.
The idea, a bit touchy-feely by N.B.A. standards, was to get everyone together to relax, bond and fuel up for 48 minutes of fast breaks and low-post tussling, he said.
