Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officer hit Pierce in the shoulder while a soldier pressed a Kalashnikov assault rifle into his back. Another officer struck Foley in the face several times and leveled a 9-mm pistol at his head. The soldiers severely beat the driver, who suffered a broken finger and thumb as well as multiple bruises. Pierce was bound with wire and taken to a Syrian military headquarters in Tripoli...
...committee set up by Poland's Primate, Cardinal Jozef Glemp, to assist martial law prisoners and their families. Earlier this month, she was one of several people beaten when hoodlums invaded the committee's offices in a Warsaw convent; she suffered bruises and a broken finger when she was hit with a chair. Four other workers were dragged to a truck and later dumped in a suburban forest...
...saying, "Acting more like political muggers than legislators, the Republicans have failed to come up with a program to deal with the staggering deficits." Tough talk, but that, of course, will do little to resolve the current impasse. Unfortunately, the principal players now seem to feel that pointing the finger of blame will be more helpful to their political interests than agreeing to any effective deficit-reduction measures. So the only safe bet, it seems, is on the monster...
...more than a century, the camera has conspired with artists and models to create successive ideals of allure. One early ideal was Parisian: gaunt and haul monde, with cheekbones so prominent you could cut your finger on them, if you dared touch them. Then, as the Hollywood cinema shouldered its way to eminence, the world standard became the active, approachable American woman, radiating health and common sense. Now there is another ideal, a new symmetry of features raising its profile in still and moving pictures. It sells mood, merchandise, magazines and, soon, movies. It holds all the history and mystery...
...healthy ambition would have persuaded her at some point to try acting in the West. But when she did go into artistic exile, it was by a strange accident, and there was a rough irony to the circumstances that made it seem that Fate's bony finger had pointed down at her from a cumulus cloud...