Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should talk during library hours, sir--especially if Mr. Joyce is over here up right center hard at work on Ulysses and Mr. Ulyanov is down left at work on revolution. But not to the public of 1918; if either man had turned to you with a warning finger to his lips in 1918 you might have laughed, or spit. Certainly you would not have been struck with awe, and this is precisely what Travesties is about-the amply mashed-in-the-face unfairness of life...
...center of the rock swarm was the Troubadour, a dank Santa Monica Boulevard bar that offered newcomers three-song auditions on Monday nights. Fast talkers who knew they needed only ballpoint pens and promising new groups to become record company executives jostled in the Troub's murk with finger snappers who knew they needed only luck and chord books to become rock musicians. The Poneys wangled a gig at the Troubadour. They had hit the small time, but they were rock musicians...
...commemorated her matrimonial stardom. As Sixth Husband John Warner looked on proudly, the actress accepted an enormous Hasty Pudding spoon "for making a big stir wherever she goes" and a 6-in. hunk of Lucite cut in the shape of a diamond. She held it next to her beringed finger, then gasped in mock alarm: "It's a fake...
...could Harvard lose to a second-division club like Penn less than a week after beating B.U., a team now firmly cemented in the top four? "I wish I knew," Crimson captain Bill Horton said yesterday. "If you could put your finger on it, something could be done to correct it. We wouldn't lose games like that...
...were selected with an eye to the most "original work of the scholar-amateurs." Hung in the Fogg next to examples of the first-rate copies they spawned, the masters' works shine all the more distinctly. Comparing original with copy, qualitative differences emerge--things that you can put your finger on, figuratively and physically, in the painting but that are hard to verbalize. (The catalogue, a magnificent opus of scholarship and reproductions, strives bravely to do so and comes up with some hilarious erudite observations: "the particular hose-like configuration of the branches presupposes the influence of a follower...