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Word: fingered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contribution to the debate, I put before the world the reactions of my friend Billy. After opening the magazine, his eyeballs left their sockets and beads of sweat gathered on his forehead. While wetting his lips, he traced the curves of each model's body with his index finger...

Author: By James E. Canning, | Title: ON THE MEDIA: | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

...This declaration closes one of Bauhaus' better songs, "Spirits," which was almost as good at the Murphy concert as on the Bauhaus record. On vinyl, "We love our audience" night or might not be the real McCoy. But when it's emphasized with stony eyes and a bony accusing finger, the phrase's contemptuous undertones hit full force. Murphy leaves us with the feeling that maybe he's taking his usual Vincent Price routine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Music: | 2/13/1987 | See Source »

...thought a few of my old contacts might still have a finger on the action somewhere. Jerry Rubin, I had heard, was making good money in exploiting the poor on Wall Street--disappointing, to say the least, but aging ex-hippies can't be choosers...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: SOUND OF FURY | 2/7/1987 | See Source »

...paid her no heed. In a rash of statements, left-wingers likened the President to Marcos, while rightists denounced her, as they frequently have in the past, as too weak and indecisive to run a government. Said a statement issued by Bayan, the largest leftist coalition: "Bayan points the finger of guilt at the Aquino government. By this act it has been shorn of all past claims of being democratic and antifascist." Juan Ponce Enrile, the ambitious former Defense Minister who was sacked by Aquino after the November coup attempt, also pounced on the President. "It is about time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Death In Manila | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...owns the Paradise Hill Bar just down the road, staunchly defends his young friend's "mishap." Though he helped Dallas escape after the Bull Camp massacre, Nielsen claims not to know the rebel's whereabouts. "If you gave me $10 million today and told me to put a finger on him, where he is," he claims, "I couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Idaho: A Killer Becomes a Mythic Hero | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

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