Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon he became aware of a large noise. Karandas had returned, and was surrounded by a considerable number of unfriendly looking people. "There he is!" he shouted, pointing a fat finger at Biff. "Sitting over there under that bronze rhinoceros...
...Gwen Verdon, Sally Ann Howes. Referring to an increase in the price of tickets to the dinner, Kennedy proved to be his own best mimic: "The sudden and arbitrary action to raise the price by $2.50 over last year is wholly unjustified," he began, pointing his stern, recruiting-poster finger. "The American people will find it difficult to accept this decision . . ." and so on, in perfect parallel to his famous scolding of the steel industry...
...When I was a student at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg,'' says Violinist Jascha Heifetz, the great Leopold Auer "pointed the finger at me and told me to teach." Heifetz was game. But thanks to his concert career and a later period of semiretirement. he took his time following Auer's advice. When he settled down to teaching this winter. Heifetz decided to enlist his Los Angeles neighbors -Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky and Violist William Primrose. Result: the most gifted string faculty in the world...
...Five Finger Exercise. A competent film version of Peter Shaffer's prizewinning play about a family that has everything money can buy-including unhappiness...
...Five Finger Exercise (Columbia], adapted from the prizewinning play by Britain's Peter Shaffer, is a perspicuous and painful study of a family that has risen from rags to wretchedness...