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...from one of the resorts and stash it in a snow-covered cranny. They plan to retrieve it in the spring when the snow melts. But an insurance investigator (Vittorio De Sica) comes around and endangers the whole operation. De Sica spends most of his time wagging his finger and laughing uproariously, for reasons that remain unfathomable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uphill Racer | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...traders scream at each other and gesture with their hands. They are obeying rules that specify that all bids and offers must be called out publicly, and flashing hand signals to make themselves understood through the din. Palm out means buy, palm in means sell; in grain trading, each finger held up vertically signifies 5,000 bushels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT: Chicago's Other Option | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

Unfortunately great competence had been wasted on mindless trivia; both Scott and Chayefsky should--and can-do better. The Hospital is amusing and skillful, but five-finger exercises shouldn't be performed in public...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Doctor Scott | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...telling me, ME to get out of mytruck?' We could smell his breath way back in the cop car. So this dude starts leaning forward across his belly and looking real clear at the depty who's doing all the talking and starts wavin' the shotgun around his finger-like it's a fuckin' toothpick, man--and the deputy is a little skinny guy whose uniform is all trim and tucked and he says...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Spruce Creek | 2/24/1972 | See Source »

...more time." he tells a friendly federal prosecutor. "The kids're growing up and they go to school and the other kids make fun of them." Eddie's only hope is to trade recklessly on information and betray his "friends," who, as it happens, are preparing to finger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gourmet Crookery | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

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