Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evangelist in the White House. Israelis and Arabs wonder what the President means by his seemingly offhand use of heavily freighted Middle Eastern code words. Brazil's prickly military leaders-along with other authoritarian regimes in Latin America's southern cone-bristle at Washington's finger pointing. Even the studiously cautious Japanese raise a diplomatic eyebrow or two as their Premier embarks on a visit to Washington amid growing worries about protectionist pressure in the U.S. and political problems at home. Washington takes a newly tough line against the white regimes of southern Africa, while fearing...
...Society, the concert sponsors, said yesterday. (Of course, I am told Sidman is given to statements like "Massachusetts is easily the best state in the Union," and "One is easily the loneliest number there could ever be.") But this time he could be right. Berkeleetrained Van Duser specializes in finger-picking--bluegrass, jazz, classical, and an incredible version of "Stars and Stripes Forever" in which he simultaneously plays bass, melody, and piccolo parts. Novick, who played with David Bromberg for a few years, is mainly a jazz musician...
...degree, Carter has heeded the warnings. His criticism of Uganda and other countries was meant to show, as he put it, that the U.S. was not pointing an admonitory finger at the Soviet Union alone. Last week Carter also delayed his scheduled meeting with Vladimir Bukovsky, a leading Russian dissident and critic of détente who was expelled from the Soviet Union last December. The President decided that seeing Bukovsky last week would be a bit much; after all, the handsome, dark-haired activist had just gone before a congressional commission to urge the U.S. to wage a cold...
...breed, it is mere adolescence. To Tennstedt, it is an age at which everything falls into place. Born in Merseburg, Germany, Klaus took up the violin at the age of eight; by 22 he was concertmaster at the municipal theater in Halle. When a nerve disorder damaged a finger of the left hand several years later, he turned to conducting. At 32 he became music director of the Dresden Opera. There were, later on, tours of the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia and other Eastern bloc countries. But recalls Tennstedt: "For any musician, travel was restricted, and there were so few possibilities...
...curse. Despite two or three of the best scenes in the Shavian canon, the play itself may be unworkable: lines by Shaw but construction by Rube Goldberg. Offstage there are battles, mob scenes and the endless clumping of Roman legions. Onstage there are only words; even in this finger exercise for Pygmalion Shaw seemed to be heading toward what he later called playwriting as a "platonic exercise...