Word: fingering
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Guns have a sort of irresistible black magic about them. A good gun has such lovely heft, a densely sinister weight in the hand. The brain is wired to the trigger finger and fires on impulse. The finger twitches, and -- blam! -- the life across a distance -- poof! -- disintegrates: an existence powdered. The finger did it on a whim. The desacralization of life, a society of emotional disconnection: killing is a kind of dream-sequence video. Conscience is disconnected from trigger finger. Child is disconnected from future. Bullet is ; disconnected from gun muzzle and, once fired, can never be recalled...
Fortunately, or unfortunately, for Coach Frank Sullivan, he can currently count his guards on one finger: Morris...
...What If You Couldn't...?," children begin to understand what life is like with a disability. They trek across surfaces of brick, rock and sand in a wheelchair, finger sign language and peck on a braille typewriter...
...silver swastika rings on, one on each hand. He took the two rings off and said, "I want you to take these rings; they just symbolize hatred and evil, and I want them out of my life." Julie gave him the other ring and put it on his finger...
...Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...