Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...master of this brightly colored universe -- or at least I'm supposed to be. By pointing my index finger and cocking my thumb, I can swoop down among the skyscrapers. I can wheel by the Space Needle, close enough to hear the clatter of silverware in its restaurant. I can dive beneath the deep- blue surface of the sound, go swimming with the whale and bask in the staccato chatter of its birdlike mating call...
...eyes, I'm jabbing at the air with the electronic glove that is supposed to be my steering wheel. But like the dreamer in a nightmare who tries to leap out of the way of a speeding locomotive and finds his legs won't work, I'm pointing my finger and bending my thumb every which way with no visible result. Feeling more and more foolish in my futuristic headgear, I'm stranded in space above a cartoon rendering of a corner of Washington State, the victim of a computer simulation gone horribly awry...
...Chiles crashed a Nelson press conference in Tallahassee last month and angrily accused his opponent of smear tactics. "If you've decided you want to be Governor so bad you've got to destroy my character, , then I feel sorry for you," Chiles said, at one point jabbing his finger toward Nelson...
Three months after Democratic and Republican congressional leaders sat down with George Bush to craft a plan for reducing the federal deficit, the budget talks collapsed last week under a combination of evasion, finger pointing and partisan bickering...
...groups in Soviet society, the armed forces would seem to be an obvious target for Gorbachev's reforming zeal. But with so much pressure building inside the military for change, sheer momentum may bring about the kind of changes Gorbachev wants, without the President's having to lift a finger...