Word: fingering
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...party offered much champagne, delectable finger food and an East Side address (rented for the occasion). A 3-ft-high hazelnut cake with pink icing had tilted to starboard in its box during shipping, but Hostess Shere Hite, author of the bestselling study of female sexuality, The Hite Report, propped it up with her 438-page tome. Hite threw the bash for friends who had helped her through her 3½ years of research for the book. Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans...
...expression was morose. Though he stood aloof from the struggle and made a point of saying, "I can work with anyone," he is known to loathe Burton. Suddenly, an emissary burst from the Speaker's lobby, where the secret paper ballots were being counted, held up one finger and passed the word to members: Wright 148, Burton 147. Tip O'Neill was grinning, ear to ear. The early speculation was proved wrong: 53 Boiling voters swung to Wright and only 40 to Burton...
...with a pronounced stoop. Often he went naked. Sometimes he wore a pair of drawstring white underpants (he had an aversion to buttons, metal snaps and zippers). On the three occasions during the hidden years when he met outsiders, he underwent an elaborate barbering, cleanup and clipping of his finger-and toenails...
...caught on in a little while, made his O.K. signal with his thumb and his first finger in a circle and managed a little smile. It was the last time I ever saw him smile...
...summon his aides he had a small silver bell, but he rarely used it. Alongside his lounge chair he kept a brown paper bag for his "contaminated" Kleenex insulation. When he wanted an aide, he snapped his finger smartly against the bag. His overlong fingernails produced a drumlike whaap whaap that brought an aide on the double...