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...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...
...President P.W. Botha. The last of the country's hard-line Afrikaner leaders, Botha for years refused to release Mandela from jail. He is famous for his bullying manner, and before taking the call, Mandela jokes, "Fortunately, I am quite a distance away, so he won't wag a finger at me." On the line, Mandela is respectful and speaks to Botha in Afrikaans. The conversation is off the record. After hanging up, Mandela calls his two junior partners in the government of national unity, Botha's successor, F.W. de Klerk, and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Inkatha Freedom...
...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...