Word: fingered
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...wrong, and they blame it on the innocent guy whose truck they used. But the movie quickly shifts its focus from the decent victim, Steve (bland Ed Kelly), to the psycho, Duke Martin (strutting John Ireland), who has a dandy's affectations - he uses perfumed bullets - and promiscuous trigger finger. In the film's 72 mins. he kills four people, most of them witnesses to the crime Steve has been framed...
...then this middle-class, educated professional switches from melancholy to trembling rage. ?America, America!? he says, jabbing his finger at the smoking rubble. ?This is the new Middle East of Ms. Rice,? he says, referring to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He adds that he was never interested in politics before this moment. ?Now I am with Hizballah and I will fight Israel and America...
...pressure and harangues from the U.S. - perhaps aware that the U.S. and Israel, knowing that the most likely alternative is the Muslim Brotherhood, actually want to keep the Ba'ath regime in place. Syria will refrain from confronting its more powerful enemies, but is unlikely to lift a finger to help them unless it can see in that course a road to end its isolation, and to a resumption of talks aimed at returning the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967, to Syrian control...
...rises, Wehbe's unlikely presence is only one of the things that are out of the ordinary. Usually, the only background noise at the coffee house is a low murmur of conversation, and the click of marble pieces on a hundred game boards as men puff on their houkas, finger wooden worry beads and play hours-long backgammon marathons. Now, there's a new addition to that symphony: half a dozen TV monitors tuned to al-Jazeera's coverage of the mayhem in Lebanon...
...Kate Moss." But the most withering put-downs are saved for ex-boyfriends - "Yeah you really must think you're great/ Let's see how you feel in a couple of weeks/ When I work my way through your mates" - Allen sings on Not Big and wiggles her little finger for anyone in the Bush Hall crowd that didn't get the subtlety of the title. In real life she can be just as harsh. She's slammed U.S. girl group the Pussycat Dolls and former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham for "promoting womanizing" and being too thin, respectively. Not that...