Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps inevitable, however, that speculation would revive about Kennedy, a man whose great gifts and flaws fascinate everyone. Last week, as the Carter bandwagon slowed, the New York Daily News claimed that Kennedy would accept a genuine draft at the convention but would not lift a finger to help it. The story had a plausible ring. Kennedy swiftly and firmly denied...
Although considerable finger pointing has gone on, there is no minimizing Ford's responsibility for the White House blahs. As Cheney himself has said on previous occasions: "The President sets the style for this White House. And that's the way it should...
...middle years of his career, he used to demonstrate his contempt for the medium by giving the smallest part of his talents. Now he has apparently decided to give too much, to parody himself. His work in Missouri Breaks is not so much a performance as it is a finger thrust joyously upward by an actor who has survived everything, including his own self-destructive impulses...
...think it's 50-50, but for gosh sake, that's a personal opinion. I'm not an executive at CBS, I will not in any way sit on the Dan Schorr case. I was very offended that some columnist...said that if I had lifted my little finger that Dan Schorr would still be working at CBS. Well, he is still working for CBS technically; he's still getting his salary. But that is misreading my role and my power...
...from Billie Holiday's croon, "If I should take a notion to jump into the ocean, ain't nobody's business if I do." Kramer uses her own slinky way of moving to draw the sinuous lines of Holiday's lament. At one point she cooly trails her index finger along the floor, then follows its path with the rest of her lankiness...