Word: finger
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...Gore ever looks in public, then turned to the basket and, with exaggerated ease, lofted the ball into the air. It swished through the hoop perfectly, catching nothing but net, and the kids shrieked in delight; Gore got the ball back and spun it smartly on his index finger. As he left the court, he turned to the children and said, "Those who don't make the team, keep trying. Repetition--practice--is the key to success...
...what his advisers did not--that staying home would hurt him more than going, because it would further undermine a reputation for deep seriousness that's taken a beating in the windblown Clinton White House. "I have become very impatient with my own tendency to put a finger to the political winds and proceed cautiously," Gore wrote in Earth in the Balance. "When caution breeds timidity, a good politician listens to other voices...
...such points, Blondie had to finger his fellow officers. "A real cop would eat his gun before squealing" on other cops, says Blondie, but he did just that. As the driving force behind the corruption that brought down Five Squad, Blondie freely ratted on Chinaman and two others, and reluctantly on his sergeant, Schoolboy, as well. Impressed with the cooperation of Blondie and his confederates, the government urged leniency. In the future, the prosecutors argued, "other officers...may take their cue from the sentencings of cooperators." Unswayed, Federal Judge Robert Gawthrop slammed the cops with the maximum mandated...
...plight of the Africans so as to equate any and all adversaries they might have, whether they be Spanish slave traders, greedy British sailors or the American legal system--which he only later in the movie realizes is actually defending them. His treatment seems to raise a long, accusatory finger at somebody, but doesn't make clear who, so that while nobody is actually defending slavery during the body of the movie, the audience comes away with a sense that they need to feel guilty about something...
...this "updating" cleverly defuses the touchiest issue inherent in The Mikado: Gilbert and Sullivan's mythicized Japan is based in large part on condescending and underinformed Victorian colonialist views of the Far East--and, while nobody really wants to point the finger of accusation at the most beloved of English musical comedians, the fact is that the authors' presentation of other nations and peoples were often less than politically correct. (After all, some of the original lyrics to "I've Got a Little List" would make modern audiences' ears burn). Contemporary productions of the play often transfer the setting...