Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the publication of his last book, however, Erikson himself became the object of some of these same questions. In a review of Life History and the Historical Moment in a New York Times Book Review, Martin Berman pointed a suspicious and defiant finger at Erikson for not laying bare the truth about his own Jewish origins, which Erikson himself at hinted at only vaguely. (Erikson readily acknowledges that his stepfather was a Jew, but Roazen notes that he makes a habit of referring to his parents by nationality only, and not by religion.) Berman also chastened Erikson...
...chivalrous Krok stepped out into the audience to take a random young woman by the hand onto the stage, it occurred to me what the seating ruckus was all about. I suppose it must be traditional by now that a pretty young thing gets escorted onstage so the thirteen finger-snapping young men can ooh, aah, ooh at her while 1400 ticketholders in the audience can only pity the young thing who gapes out, rigor-mortified, at the shadowy mass. Even if this was where Anita Bryant got her big break, is it really worth all the trouble...
...found himself in the midst of a storm so filled with hail that the radar of a trailing jetliner detected what appeared to be a solid form in the black clouds-a great, ominous "hook" in the sky. Since the early 1920s, when mail pilots held up a wet finger to see which way the wind was blowing, U.S. aviation has been trying with increasing success to spot weather hazards and route pilots around them. Today's commercial airlines get a steady stream of up-to-the-minute weather reports, including data gleaned by satellites that scan the earth...
...broken down trying to make the transition from North Vietnamese prison camp to civilian status in the U.S., gets to do some nice psychopathic bits. Shaw has some weary and aging hunter routines on which to flex his thespian muscles. But the early action sequences have the feel of finger exercises, warm-ups for the big one to come, while the attempts to probe the psychology of the drama's leading figures are totally without surprise or subtlety...
...govern Paris! Only we can build a dike to contain the Socialist-Communist tide!" In the first of two rounds of nationwide municipal elections last week, Chirac won enough support virtually to assure his election as mayor. But outside the capital, he barely managed to keep his finger in the dike. Socialists and Communists, running on a combined ticket, in many areas routed candidates jointly put up by Chirac and President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Although their total vote was slightly below the 53% they registered in last year's cantonal elections, the leftists gained control of municipal...