Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dead were Mensa masters. A single song, in its myriad tonal variations, could go on for the better part of an hour--or the worse part, if inspiration was lacking that night. Deadheads came for that inspiration, and found it in the roly-poly guitarist with a missing middle finger on his strumming hand. Garcia was the soul, the sound--by common consent, the head Dead...
...ended with a whimper, having unearthed few new facts and having elicited no major revelations. Attorney General Janet Reno firmly stood her ground and again defended her decision to go ahead with the tear-gas assault on the complex. "We all mourn the tragic outcome," she testified, "but the finger of blame points in one direction. It points directly at [sect leader] David Koresh...
...exhaustive is the finger pointing in Gingrich's book that even the tendency to blame others gets blamed on others. Thus the victim mentality, which encourages people to blame their personal failings on "society," is largely the work of "the countercultural left." A question arises: Does the complicity of the counterculture in this tendency mean that faulting your social environment for your faults isn't really your fault? If so, that's good news for Gingrich. Asked on TV a few months ago about his use of marijuana during the Vietnam period, he said it was merely a sign that...
...home and business for later use. These are reconstructed scenes, emotion recollected in tranquility. In Room in New York, 1932, it is night; a man reads a paper at a round table, a woman turns away in her own absorption and boredom, touching the piano keyboard with one finger. They are out of synch, and their distance from each other is figured in the simple act of a woman with a shadowed face sounding a note (or perhaps only thinking about sounding it) to which there will be no response...
...described the ex-football star as a physical wreck, he nonetheless conceded that Simpson could have pulled back Nicole Brown Simpson's head with his left hand and slit her throat with his right. As the defense began its second week, testimony also focused on Simpson's cut finger, which the defense maintains was injured when the defendant broke a drinking glass in his Chicago hotel room upon learning of his ex-wife's death. A principal challenge still looms: the defense must address voluminous physical evidence, including DNA and fiber samples, at the heart of the prosecution's case...