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Wherever he goes, Trillin resists the temptation to put his pulse on the finger of the nation. There is never any doubt about where his sympathies lie but, like his late colleague, The New Yorker's A.J. Liebling, Trillin exhibits great technical control and a quiet passion for fairness and precision. He is, to use a phrase that Liebling reserved for high praise, "a careful writer." · R.Z. Sheppard
...chauffeur whom she had fired for rudeness was discovered hiding in a closet with a hammer, and it took the 61-year-old actress, her stepmother, 70, her secretary and another chauffeur ten minutes to subdue her. Kate emerged from the fray with a new memento of Hartford-a finger that was fractured and bitten to the bone...
...Starr called Paul McCartney, who brought the suit, "a spoiled child" and described a row about the release date of the Beatles album Let It Be and that of the solo album, McCartney. "To my dismay, he went completely out of control," said Ringo, "shouting at me, pointing his finger toward my face, shouting 'I'll finish you now!' and 'You'll pay!' " Said John Lennon: "From our earliest days in Liverpool, George [Harrison] and I, on the one hand, and Paul, on the other, had different musical tastes. Paul preferred pop-type music...
...instance, in several sequences the Groove Tube camera plays cleverly with fingers that walk around like the Yellow Pages fingers; it follows them with close-up as they mimic perfectly the actions of a man meeting a woman on a stroll, in one sequence, and in another, they imitate a ballet dancer roaming over hills. In both sequences it's an interesting idea that is executed well-but Groove Tube's leering humor makes the first sequence depend on the appearance of a thumb between one pair of finger-legs and upon the inevitable seduction, while in the other sequence...
Herself a poet and critic (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), Miss Borroff spent last spring feeding the machine simple grammar, assorted stanzaic patterns and a vocabulary of 950 words that she selected by letting her finger fall blindly on poems in classical and avant-garde anthologies. Then she had the computer's random number generator make the word selections and let it rip-at two stanzas a second...