Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to be connected with anything that fizzles," drawls Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel Norland Sanders, 86, fearful that a musical version of his life might prove to be a turkey. So Sanders, whose own career fizzled until 1956, when he launched the first of his "finger lickin' good" chicken eateries, has not invested any money in Kentucky Lucky, a new stage show scheduled for a fall debut. Conceived by Writer James Chappin and directed by Jerry Adler (My Fair Lady), the show will tell the colonel's story in song and dance. Sanders doubts that it will help...
Movies like this are the price audiences have to pay for liking The Sting. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliott Gould) are bumptious turn-of-the-century vaudevillians with more talent for stealing the customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become...
YUKIKO IRWIN, who attended both Tokyo Women's Christian College and Indiana University, is descended from Benjamin Franklin. She lives in Manhattan, where she is an expert in shiatzu, a finger-pressure therapy similar to Chinese acupuncture. Her grandfather, a Philadelphia trader, went to Japan in 1866 and wed a local woman in the first legally sanctioned marriage of an American and a Japanese. Her father also married a Japanese...
...sure sign of jazz's new vitality is the recent proliferation of clubs. In San Francisco, the Keystone Korner, El Matador and the Great American Music Hall are jumping nightly with finger snappers. Boston has a floating musical bistro called Jazzboat plying the harbor on two sold-out weekly cruises. Around New Orleans' Bourbon Street the crowds wander in and out of clubs that open onto the sidewalk. They can hear anything from driving Dixieland to the attenuated sounds of progressive jazz. In New York there are more clubs than at any time since...
...flat and evil-looking fish, of the genus Torpedo lies quivering on a wet napkin. A wire extends from the napkin to a nearby basin of water. A man holds a finger in the basin and another finger in another basin. A second man holds one finger in the second basin and another finger in a third basin. And so on-until the eighth man, with his finger in the seventh basin, touches a wire to the back of the fish, a ray. Then, although none of the men is touching the fish or any other person, all of them...