Word: fingering
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...same weak defense, virtually verbatim—“I’m just a professional doing my job.” Creasy, though, is the only one who is a real professional, the kind of hero who can inventively fashion an explosive suppository and staunch severed-finger wounds with an automobile cigarette lighter. (Walken, with the not-quite-provoked manic intensity that has made him a cult figure, enthusiastically tells the film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece” before...
...street from Fenway, this high-traffic brewery is inevitably packed whenever the Sox are in town. While they offer a multitude of brews, including one with real blueberries floating in it, Boston Beer Works also has extensive food offerings. The 90-plus selections include the standard array of finger-foods (the sweet potato fries get particularly high marks), as well as more original dishes like the popular Ragin’ Cajun. But even if they’re just craving some cajun, those under 21 won?...
Finally, there’s Levner’s story from high school about watching her coxswain nearly lose her ring finger in order to save the boat during a practice...
...reached under the boat and pushed away a log,” Levner recalled. “Then she pulled up her hand and said ‘the boat’s ok, but my finger is not.’ And her finger was almost severed right in half?...
...ATMs to TV remotes have got touchy. Rather than push real buttons, you touch onscreen icons. Such screens can present difficulties for the visually impaired, however, and can be a danger when mounted in cars. To address those problems, Alpine Electronics developed PulseTouch, a screen that vibrates under your finger, changing the sensation with low-voltage impulses under the screen's plastic skin as you move. The result is virtual topography. Since the sensations vary, depending on whether you're touching an icon or a blank area, you can finger through options without taking your eyes off the road. Alpine...