Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made no Fifth Amendment claim then, and I didn't need to," he says. Mailer spoke up after nine prominent writers, including William Styron and Nora Ephron, published a letter in the New York Review of Books charging that Farbar was denied early parole because of his refusal to finger Mailer...
Hirsch did not set out to produce an entertainment. But this summer, readers seem eager for masochistic diversions. Another finger-wagging polemic about American education, Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, has been on the New York Times best-seller list for eleven weeks. Cultural Literacy is equally cranky, and it has already made best-seller lists in New York City, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco and Boston...
...conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through the gloved finger of his steel hand and then, to impress a gawking boy, blow smoke from the glove's ruptured finger. Is the movie gaily influenced by old Howard Hawks, Roger Corman and even Jerry Lewis films? Then Dante will cast veteran actors identified with those directors...
...lawyers who so long counseled North to say nothing, the committees intend to limit their questioning of the Marine lieutenant colonel, at least initially, to four days. Yet ten times four days would scarcely suffice to explore every secret scheme in which North is said to have put his finger during his five years on the National Security Council staff, to unravel all the private networks he hammered together to carry out secret policies, to track down the sources of the authority that enabled him to order around Ambassadors, CIA agents and Government officials who outranked...
...President. The weakening of party allegiance among voters has meant that only three postwar Presidents have enjoyed four years in which their own party has controlled both houses of Congress. When the White House and Capitol Hill thwart each other on Central America or engage in mutual finger pointing on the national debt, the separation of powers that was the chief innovation of the framers can seem a mixed blessing...