Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rods appear to defy the laws of matter and occupy two places at the same time; or one can put a finger into an apparently empty patch of air and feel it hammered by an invisible solid...
Despite all this, The Godson's elegiac mood and spacious sense of style reveal undeniably adept direction. Except for his Doulous - The Finger Man, an atmospheric thriller that appeared in 1964, Jean-Pierre Melville's work has been little seen in this country. He himself popped up in Godard's Breathless, where he played a celebrated film maker giving an interview to Jean Seberg. In France, in deed, he is celebrated for melancholy Gallic exercises in gangsterism, American style...
...deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games-can it really be a finger-shaped monster? So it appears...
...pickle, ol ives and sesame sauce. The gyro, a Greek concoction of lamb, tomato and onion, has pre-empted the frankfurter's place on many Eastern city streets. On both coasts, the Mexican taco has become a short-order staple. Soul food has gone national. Colonel Sanders' finger-lickin' Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets now number 3,500. The pizza, according to a Gallup Organization poll, is the No. 1 favorite snack of 21-to-34-year-olds. (Any of those foods many contain additives, too, but they have not yet been in the Nader pressure cooker...
Woody Allen reminds me of the class comedian in high school. You know, the one who always had smartass answers to the teacher's questions and who gave the teacher the finger as soon as she turned her back. He was always doing something clever like carving pornographic couplets into his desk or trying to sneak into the girls washroom just so they would scream and all the boys would giggle. Woody Allen has carried this comic style into adult movies with his film Everything You Always Wanted to Know etc. In response to the serious queries of Dr. David...