Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This time, the fickle finger of film-fame fate fell on Helen Slater, yet another graduate of the much "Famed" High School of the Performing Arts in New York. Her performance shows the trademarks of that institution's actors: mere competence so polished that all traces of character have been rubbed out. Slater, cute as she is, overwhelms the film with her dullness...
...vanishing small. In the case of a nuclear attack, the President must decide to retaliate minutes after initial warnings of a Soviet strike are received. When practice data was interpreted as real by the North American Air Defense computers in 1980, for example fewer than five minutes separated the finger from the button. Airline navigation is a similarly dramatic example; bad data in a flight plan program is the suspected cause of a 1979 Air New Zealand crash that killed 257 passengers, the pilots, flying in poor weather were told by a navigation computer that they were over water when...
...witnesses wore black robes and cowls and testified through voice-altering devices. A Japanese gangster held up his hand to show how he had chopped off half his ringer to prove his repentance after having been disrespectful to his leader. He had put the severed finger in a small jar and sent it to the gang boss. One expert on the Chinese gangs told how members drank wine laced with both human and chicken blood while being initiated into their crime societies. He claimed that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with...
...that mission when the terrorist attacks began. He had "no apologies" for their mission, the President said. In one of his more effective presentations of the evening, Reagan underscored his humane intentions by insisting that the U.S. would retaliate against terrorist attacks only "if we can put our finger on" the groups specifically responsible. Said the President: "We are not going to simply kill some people to say, 'oh look, we got even.' " Mondale in turn quoted Groucho Marx as once asking, "Who do you believe, me or your own eyes?" What the American public could see with...
...theatrical and film producer who oversaw some 20 Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955), then turned many of them into successful movies, and who was also responsible for the first appearances on Broadway of Play wrights Peter Shaffer (Five Finger Exercise, 1959) and Harold Pinter (The Caretaker, 1961); of a stroke; in New York City. Brisson was married for 35 years to Actress Rosalind Russell, until her death...