Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vandervane, 54, violinist, composer and conductor, is a familiar Amis character, a clowning nihilist with a middle finger ever at the ready. "Rage at absent, or largely imaginary foes," writes Amis, "was part of his life style...
...basic shapes of the road signs date back to the Middle Ages. The gypsies used to mark a charcoal sign on the first available white wall of a village on the road. A triangle, the angle downward, stood for a hand with the index finger toward the ground and meant, "Danger, be careful, no hospitality"; the triangle with the angle upward, stood for a hand with the index finger aiming toward the sky and meant, "Go ahead, good place on this road"; a circle meant, "Nice place for the circle of the campfire, a place to rest...
...Disney explained, "We had to push out 700 feet of film every two weeks, so we couldn't have a character who was tough to draw. We didn't want him to have mouse hands, because he was supposed to be more human. So we gave him gloves. Five fingers looked like too much on such a little creature, so we took one away. That was just one less finger to animate...There was no mouse hair or any other frills that would slow down animation." Disney never worked in a feverish creative state never even drew his own characters...
...doing these days. The album is good; it's just not great. Restrictions' most glaring weakness is a lack of good original material. The album is hopelessly flawed by such inane cuts as "Token Chokin" and "Alaska," with each of the members of the band having a finger in the awful...
...Kent State today is nothing like Oberlin-or even Kent State, 1969. The bloody afternoon of May 4 ensured that the campus would not be the same for years to come. Passers-by stop at the sculpture outside Taylor Hall, insert a little finger in a clean bullet hole and quietly move on. In general there is a sense of listlessness on the campus, coupled with a lingering frustration over the handling of what the students consider to have been a massacre. Last August the office of Attorney General John Mitchell dropped further federal investigation of the incident. Two nonradical...