Word: fingering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pass up: "There's lesbianism, other men, sex, drugs," says Eliot. "It's got everything everyone wants, and it's real." And Little, Brown, which paid O.J. Simpson $1 million to pull together some self-serving letters into I Want to Tell You (650,000 printed), points the finger elsewhere. Says Little, Brown ceo Charles E. Hayward: "Of the total dollars generated by this trial, if you stacked up magazines, newspapers, television and radio, my guess is books would come in a distant last." And this, in the end, is the same argument parents have traditionally found so hard...
...Show me a civilization in which publicconversation has degenerated into finger pointingand name calling, and I'll show you a democracy indecay," West said...
...Russians are back! the Russians are back! writers of international thrillers, on page or screen, must have whooped for joy when Vladimir Zhirinovsky began spouting his virulent nationalism. What if this character got his finger on the nuclear button? Why, there'd be a right-wing update of the old red menace. So here, lighting a flame under Cold War II, is Crimson Tide, a burly, chatty melodrama about the imminence of annihilation. On a U.S. nuclear submarine, only two men-grizzled old Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman) and his starchy second-in-command, Lieut. Commander Ron Hunter (Denzel Washington)-have...
However, Johnny manually fertilized some of his females, a statement which would be disturbing in a different context. "If you just harvest females, you have no seeds for later," he says. Using his finger, he took pollen from the males and put it on some of the females so he'll be able to spawn another crop from the current...
...finger pulls the trigger,'' says Leonard Berkowitz, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin. "But the trigger may also pull the finger. It's not just that having a gun is a convenient way of settling an argument. The weapon itself is a stimulant to violence...