But even as he did so, the governor wandered into touchier territory within the party, offering a critique of Congressional gerrymandering, which he called a barrier to bipartisanship.
This is the very ticklish territory that the Carolina Chocolate Drops affirmatively chose to inhabit - or, more accurately, re-inhabit - as with Genuine Negro Jig, an album named for a song that had been sung in the mid-1800s by a white man named Dan Emmett who was a pioneer of "Minstrelsy" in America -- another very touchy subject.
Oprah may have had 112 questions prepared, but she let Armstrong evade her and even allowed him to trespass into afternoon TV touchy-feely territory.
PAGE A36 FOCUSING ON THE ULTRA-ORTHODOX "The Secrets," an Israeli film, treads some touchy and sometimes uncharted territory for the ultra-Orthodox: women's rights and lesbian love.
The film, "The Secrets," which opened Wednesday at seven theaters in the New York area, treads some touchy and sometimes uncharted territory for the ultra-Orthodox: women's rights, lesbian love and kabbalah, the arcane mystical teachings that Madonna has helped popularize and, some say, trivialize.
Try to stick to the safe, polite topics, like your health, the weather, or school or whatever it is you have to talk about, and you will be far better off than if you tread on territory that is touchy or immediately controversial.
But where the sensibility of her earlier movies is solidly grounded in psychological reality, "Touchy Feely," whose title conveys an undertone of sarcasm, wobbles into uncharted psychic territory.
