Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death, of factories and demons. Swords clash and warriors strut; lovers grieve and stab themselves; workers are whipped; gods curse; a group of students rebel against their teachers. In all these dances, Shankar uses only Indian instruments, the ancient ragas (modes), and the hundreds of gestures-a bent finger, a turned-up toe, a roll of the eyes-that have carried the same meanings to Indians for centuries...
Says Tacho: "We Nicaraguans are a Spanish and Indian mixture, and that's dynamite. Give us a finger and we take a hand. Give us a hand and we take...
...glorified opera for horses, which no one in his right mind would grace with the name plot, is labyrinthine in its complexity. It concerns a hard-bitten young army officer who travels west under sealed orders to trace a pair of murders. He can never quite put his finger on the killers, so he shoots a dozen extras just to make sure. Sandwiched in between the first and the last shot are a vicious flat fight, a barn-burning, and the seduction of a bosomy young woman at the almost incredible range of thirty feet. There is also some business...
...first this year, Munro may be seriously troubled by injuries, for both his fullbacks may not last the game because of injured legs. In addition, second string goalie Don Harshman is out with a broken finger and a reserve halfback, Jim Bell, has a dislocated shoulder...
...Seattle, Promoter Larry Scheer pointed a finger mysteriously at unnamed wartime generals and admirals. "Somebody big didn't like boxing, so they didn't build it up. There should have been a mob of good fighters come out of the Army and Navy, but they didn't. It was all basketball, this last...