Word: finger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young Jewish New York comedienne with a cast of well groomed aristocrats. This leads to some of the worst and the best moments of the evening. The worst: Phil Gabrielli is competent but ridiculous as suave Jewish gambler Nick Arristein. He plays him like Cyril Ritchard dipping his pinky finger into something icky. John Cook as theatrical entrepreneur Flo Ziegfeld tries hard but is equally unlikely. The best: a Ziegfeld production number called "His Love Makes Me Beautiful." Eight deadpanning preppies running around with sequined mirrors create an infinitely better satire of a Follies extravaganza than a hundred would...
...inflated dirigibles, sit plotting together in cheap hotel rooms, or ride in a jalopy through city streets, or, cigar in fist, survey piles of bodies. Sometimes they are seen in confabulation with a bald, pink-necked Southern sheriff. Now and then a hand, suggestive of God's accusing finger, pops out of the pink sky to stop them dead in their tracks...
...Yard's Special Branch until 1963; of a heart attack; in Bath, England. Part of a team working with Military Intelligence (M.I.5), Smith built a reputation as a tracker of Nazi parachutists and saboteurs in World War II. In the shadow world of peacetime espionage, he put the finger on Atomic Spy Allan Nunn May in 1946 and Klaus Fuchs in 1950. But the most celebrated coup of his 35-year career was the unraveling in 1961 of a Soviet network headed by Spy Chief Gordon Lonsdale...
...Boulevard, or antic farce, such as Some Like It Hot. Instead, we are presented with what future critics will call "Some Like It Tepid," a listless ac count of ourselves v. the Kaiser's agents. Moreover, it portrays me as inept. A lady twists me 'round her finger." "Mmmmm...
Everyone in the crowd was either waving, blowing kisses, crying, or flashing peace symbols back at Bobby. It was clear why the two-finger sign just wouldn't do in anti-war protests these days. The teenyboppers have taken it over. Love, flowers, beauty, peace. It oozed from the crowd. Bobby soaked...