Word: fingered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What did you do to Stewart? There was a very inside joke on Family Guy referring to the fact that he was working before the writers' strike was over. It was admittedly a very direct middle finger of a joke, which I don't discount. But he called and was very angry about it. The call lasted an hour. It was pretty amazing. He's a very good debater, I'll tell you that. It was fascinating to me that it went on for so long...
...head back up, fewer mortgages will exceed the value of the asset that backs them up, foreclosures will drop, and bankers will be willing to lend again. More generally, in a nation of homeowners, people will get back that cozy feeling that they are getting richer without lifting a finger. "Confidence"--today's great missing ingredient--will be restored. The crisis will end. The dreamer awakes and takes out a second mortgage, and we all live happily ever after...
...that's a familiar test, or trap, in a Lee film. He loves to twist a picture out of shape, daring the audience to keep up with the abrupt shift of moods, the wagging finger of the director. And if you start arguing with Miracle at St. Anna, that's O.K. with him. Spike Lee has always loved a good fight...
...years ago, Asian bankers got a good finger-wagging from their American and European counterparts as the region's financial sectors melted down in a major crisis. Today, Asia has the right to do some finger-wagging...
...leaving me solely responsible for the desserts, I started to question why they ever thought it was a good idea. Maybe cooking with my mother would have been enough. Maybe I didn’t have to wake up every morning convinced I was going to chop off a finger. I wasn’t a natural. I slipped and tripped and sent sparks flying from the electric mixer when I screwed on the beater incorrectly. I carried shards of a broken bowl around in my bag for three weeks because I didn’t want to let anyone...