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Burne-Jones' lovers seem always in freeze frame, like the frustrated couple in that Pre-Raphaelite touchstone, Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn": "Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,/ Though winning near the goal."
Ted Bernstein's book never worked well for me, but I might not be a fair touchstone in such matters.
The movie, The Insider , which is about CBS's suppression of a 60 Minutes interview with a tobacco-industry whistleblower, is being released by Miramax's sister company, Touchstone.
That Star Wars should turn out to be a kind of cultural touchstone for many people is likely to be mysterious to the many people for whom it is not a cultural touchstone.
Perhaps Clinton's enemies needn't bother laboring to make the Lewinsky mess the touchstone of his presidency.