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In each case, the statement was useful to the candidate's enemies because it touched on a weakness that 1) was similarly reflected in other comments by the candidate and 2) directly undermined his campaign rationale.
(Bill's family, like many families in the United States, has been directly touched by cancer.)
In Italy, the story of the delivery of the Starr report was touched upon only briefly on the front pages but was covered extensively on the foreign pages.
The Good Housekeeping et al. takeover of the Chronicle and the presumed sickness-unto-death of the Examiner has touched off an orgy of retrospectives in both papers, complete with fond remembrances of the way things were in the good old days.
But just like the rappers with whom Beatty hung out to prep this picture, the audience has a pretty good idea of what subject really obsesses Beatty, and he hasn't touched it since Shampoo.