Word: fingering
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Fortunately, neighboring nerve cells that were not killed by the infection are often able to regenerate axons -- the finger-like connections that link nerves to muscle fiber. That's why the standard rehabilitative therapy for polio victims has been to stimulate nerve activity through heat and rigorous exercise, encouraging the healthy nerves to grow into the spaces left by their infected and damaged kin. "Use it or lose it" was the refrain with which therapists urged on a generation of polio kids...
...realize you're"--he pinches his thumb and index finger together and gestures at the tiny space in between--"against the whole government...
...bewildering that Hitchcock felt the need to include a scene with a shrink to explain it all at the end. This is the one scene where the suspense, held so masterfully up until this point (and afterwards in Norman's final soliloquy), breaks. Some silly guy swings his finger around and ties it all up nicely for us. But keep in mind that most thrillers--even Hitchcock films--have numerous scenes that merely establish the context for suspense to come, while "Psycho' manages to build suspense with suspense itself. Like an unappeasable lover, this movie offers no respite...
...Harvard bench stormed the ice, 19 days after it had sat in stunned silence when Boston College upset the Crimson in the Beanpot tournament final. The fickle finger of fate was now back, pointing to its proper side...
...sure about this guy," one Porc member said of a candidate. "He seems nice, friendly and outgoing, but at the same time, rather lofty or arrogant. I can't quite put my finger on it but we'll see what he's really like as tea goes...