Word: finger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Palming the deck, a voter tucked one postal-sized presidential card and one smaller congressional card into his envelope, sealed that and discarded the remainder. He also dipped his finger into indelible ink. The stain then prevented anyone from voting twice...
...briefly. The sense of urgency seemed lacking, buried in reasoned discussion. The student observers at the conference (by no means militants themselves) fantasized about yelling obscenities or enacting a guerrilla theatre just to shake things up. And Brian Walden, a labor M.P. in Great Britain, seemed to put his finger on the problems when he said, "I am a politician. I therefore have an advantage over most of the people here--I sometimes see ordinary people...
...unfortunate phrase "finger-lickin' good," once confined to chicken in the South, now appears in Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco, Buffalo, El Paso. All too often, sea food is now headlined: "Denizens of the Deep." Vegetables come from "Field and Forest...
...deliberately interweaves human, titanic, planetary and angelic, and even divine motifs. When you lie atop the tower day after day, his figures seem to be moving and communicating in a thousand ways. At times, the mere glance of a painted eye, an unexpected highlight, or the crook of a finger clues you in to some new turning of the artist's labyrinthine mind. The bonds between his figures are abstract, of course, but no less real for that...
...from begonia, bougainvillea and poinsettia to lobster, raspberry, strawberry and watermelon. The designer called the look "hippie gypsy," and it included tiny bra tops covered by bolero jackets, Hungarian tunic blouses combined with tights or flowing midiskirts and curly hairdos bound up with kerchiefs. Jewels glinted from every ear, finger, neck, wrist, waist and ankle. Scott's version of this year's costume look was the hit of the show; it was also evidence that Scott, five years after he began designing clothes for his own Milan boutique, has moved up to rival Emilio Pucci in the flamboyant...