Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other government ministers. He was wearing his typical rustic white cotton shirt, baggy blue work pants and a black beret. As the Pontiff approached, Cardenal whipped off his beret and dropped to his knees to kiss the papal ring. But the Pope appeared to withhold his hand. Wagging his finger at Cardenal, John Paul gave him a public scolding that television cameras carried around the world. The Pope told Cardenal: "You must straighten out your position with the church...
...photographers, sending the fellow's glasses skittering across the pavement. At a Broadway theater the next night, Rainier was accused of cursing and slugging another paparazzo who clicked when he should have ducked. Later that night, as his father hopped into a waiting limousine, Albert extended the middle finger of his left hand to the clustered throng of photographers in the universally understood gesture of disapproval. At such moments, no doubt, royal families must wish that the art of portraiture had never moved off the easel. -By E. Graydon Carter
...should go without saying (though apparently it does not) that one cannot learn to think in the abstract: one has to think about something. But here we come to what is perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of the new curriculum. Critics point an accusing finger at courses such as "Monuments of Asia." "The Novel in East India," and "The Great Rebellion: Britain 1640-1660" as instances of narrowness run attack. They conclude from this that the Core makes students "slaves of the techniques of narrow academic study": worse, captives of "powerful departmental interests...
While he didn't jump. Edward A. Kurent, a senior enforcement lawyer at the EPA, did resign last wek, saying his office can no longer do its job properly. Kurent cited "the fatigue and low morale of the staff" and pointed the finger at Burford for undermining the agency's enforcement efforts. Similar frustration prompted civil rights attorneys at the Justice Department to sign petitions twice last your opposting administration policy in that area...
Christine E. Hayes '84, who organized the group, which is called "Response," said yesterday the counselors are on call to listen, not to give advice. "We're not pointing the finger at anyone," Hayes added...