Word: finger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really sticks his index finger up there...
...pure belief in the do-it-yourself, amateur ethic. The ethic showed up in their economic: the original Raincoats LP was one of the first full-length releases on the cooperative Rough Trade label. It showed up in the record's crisp production, in which each movement of fingers along the electric-guitar finger-board, and each breath Gina Birch takes, can be heard. And it showed up in the lack of "technical skill" which informs each musical move: it's normal to say that the Raincoats discovered their style in part because they "couldn't play their instruments...
...respondents also put their finger on what may prove to be the most worrisome development of the genetic age: the likelihood that the secrets hidden in people's genes will someday be used against them. A drop of blood or a lock of hair contains all the genetic information a potential employer or insurer would need to determine whether someone is at risk of contracting a long list of debilitating diseases. Of those polled, 90% said they thought it should be against the law for insurance companies to use genetic tests to decide whom to insure. Yet such practices...
...Jeffrey Jentzen, the county medical examiner, who has watched the carnage rise over the years. Sometime in the late 1980s, about the time that crack hit town, Milwaukee joined the long list of U.S. cities where residents think twice before honking at strangers. "I don't give people the finger from my car, and I haven't for a while," confesses Mike Malmstadt, presiding judge of the county juvenile division...
...controversial restoration of the chapel's 33-panel ceiling, which includes God's finger touching Adam's, was finished in 1989. Though some critics contend the process produced undesirable changes in color, the majority think it revealed the original hues used by Michelangelo in their pristine state. The Judgment, probably the world's most important example of fresco -- a technique that involves applying water-based pigments to a still wet plaster wall -- has not been seen by the public since 1990, when it was hidden behind draped scaffolding. As with the ceiling, its cleaner and brighter look, once revealed...