Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funeral, written with Main Line disdain in the Philadelphia Bulletin: "The chances of pickpockets were superior, had the pickings been desirable, but the ragged outcasts and very humble citizens with an infusion of colored little ones who made up the motley crew offered no tempting inducements for the light finger...
...states that an "occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies." To West Bankers, the settlements are not only permanent, but they are also designed to surround and isolate the major Arab centers of population. Example: in the Latrun finger, a spit of land that juts out between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, the Arab villages of Beit Nuba, Emmous and Yalu, with all their 1,800 houses, were bulldozed to the ground. East of the present Jerusalem-Nablus road, meanwhile, the Israelis are linking their major settlements overlooking the Jordan...
...include 211 exhibition rooms, 36 craft shops, three hotels and seven restaurants. To direct the tourists, the foundation spends $500,000 a year maintaining a staff of 600 garbed in colonial costumes. The 30 shuttle buses provided for visitors burn a $1 million hole in the budget; fresh flowers, finger bowls and exquisitely manicured lawns and gardens cost thousands more. Says Foundation President Carlisle Humelsine: "It is unique-uniquely expensive too." Total 1976 budget: $54 million...
Delicate Hands. Nixon found Leonid Brezhnev to be much more poised and cautious than his predecessor: "Intellectually you had a man not as quick as Khrushchev, but he is a much safer man to have sitting there with his finger on the button than Khrushchev." Brezhnev is also evidence that "the new class is doin' pretty good" in the Soviet Union. He is "something of a fashion plate. He liked beautiful cars. He liked beautiful women...
...perspective born of a decade's distance from the Stooges finds expression in "Dum Dum Boys," Iggy's tribute to his old band. The song begins with a short finger-popping catalogue of the whereabouts of the boys since the band split up. A raspy but bell-like guitar melody launches a well-structured ballad of alienation. "What happened to James?" "He's gone straight." states the prologue. But Iggy (a.k.a. James Osterberg) has lost his voice with the demise of the band...