Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...global celebrity, an icon of the information age. He wrote a best-selling book, The Road Ahead (Viking; $29.95), and hawked it on talk shows from David Frost to David Letterman. He commandeered the world press to promote the launch of Windows 95. He defied government probes of his finger-in-the-eye business practices, even as he was leveraging his control of computer software to edge his way into banking, retailing, interactive television and Hollywood. His net worth ballooned to nearly $15 billion, making him the richest self-made man on the planet...
...waits alongside the likes of Chen and feels no less worthy of her doctor's attention just because she is on welfare and has no private insurance. "I chose him because he was so nice to me when I went into the clinic to get a wart on my finger looked at," Broyles explains. "He treats us all the same. Even if I am on Mercy Care [a provider sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church], he doesn't look at me funny...
While the finger pointing was going on in New York City, Senator Bob Dole, who knows the marquee value of a cheap shot at a movie when he sees one, took the opportunity to reprise the attacks on Hollywood that garnered so much attention last spring. "For those in the entertainment industry, who too often engage in a pornography of violence as a way to sell movie tickets, it is time for some serious soul-searching," said Dole. "Is this how they want to make their livelihoods...
...search committee for the assistant dean for public service and director of Phillips Brooks House, we write to state that the individual selected by Dean Lewis in no way reflects our opinions or recommendations to him," PBHA President Vin Pan '96-'95 and Central Hand Coordinator Elizabeth Finger '96 wrote in a statement at the time Kidd's appointment was announced...
Whether playing a finger-twisting show-stopper like Leopold Godowsky's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes from Johann Strauss II's "Artist's Life," or kiddin' on the keys with Gershwin's Fascinating Rhythm, or digging into one of the late Beethoven sonatas, Wild brings the same impeccable attention to structure and detail. "I spend a lot of time with these pieces," he says, "because if you don't know them thoroughly, you're just struggling like crazy to play the notes. But when you hear middle voices and the other details--when you have the tones in your head...