Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merely extending his or her finger, pedestrian can control traffic signals, turning green lights read and bringing cars to a virtual standstill. But how powerful is the cross-walk button? can it really turn a traffic light red or is it simply a ruse devised to calm impatient street-crossers? according to Don Burgess associate traffic engineer at the Boston Department of Transportation, the answer...
...common...He's an animal with an animal's habits..thousands of years have passed him by there he is, Stanley Kowalski." With angry rages where he breaks all the light-bulbs with Stella's wedding shoe (a rampage which Stella erotically described as "thrilling"), his finger-licking table manners and process of clearing the table by smashing the dishes against the wall (then delivering the famous, "do you need help cleaning yours?" line), Kowalski proves himself to be the insensitive, oversexed image of what it is to be a (grunt) real man. He is juxtaposed with Blanche's swaying...
...working concept of interracial society. "All colors merge into one joyous, sun- stunned flesh-color, coating the sand with a second living skin," writes Updike of Copacabana, the beach where Tristao meets Isabel. In a gesture of courtly love, he presents her with a ring stripped from the finger of a matronly tourist. The initials on the crest are DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution?). Tristao reads that as "to give...
...piercing, however, hurt less than slamminga finger in a car door, Millman says, and besides,the pain was worth...
Humanitarian aid is just a finger in a collapsing dike...