Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Click. The nine ball plops into the side pocket, the cue ball hits one cushion and stops near the center spot. Big as a water tower but light on his feet, with a diamond ring on a pudgy finger, the fat man moves around the table. For 31 consecutive hours, with an almost incredible repertoire of masse shots, bank shots, gather shots, and combinations, with just enough English and the right amount of draw, he has been defending his reputation as the best there is. He chalks up and shoots again. Click. The 15 ball slams into the corner...
...When I started teaching 15 years ago," says Chemistry Teacher Lawrence D. Lynch of Beverly Hills (Calif.) High School. "I felt overprotective toward the serious student. This is no longer necessary. There is no more finger pointing, no more 'I'll get you after school' from poorer students. Our happiest students are our best students. The status they have in and out of the classroom is remarkable...
...first, Dr. Flatt used a hinge with a single prong at each end, but found that a finger might rotate around this. So he switched to double prongs which cannot twist. Though originally designed for middle joints, the hinges are proving most useful as replacements for knuckles...
Nonetheless, argues Macleod, "it is not at Munich but at the locust years, 1934 and 1935, that the finger of criticism should be pointed." For despite Chamberlain's "most valiant" championship of rearmament in the mid-'30's, so little was done that by September 1938. Britain was almost completely defenseless against air attack, had only a token quantity of modern antiaircraft guns and one operational Spitfire squadron. "After Munich," says Iain Macleod, "the last strong hopes of peace were not allowed to hold back our accelerating preparations against...
...what the script says, but it is plainly later than Bob Hope (who admits he is 57) and Lana Turner (who claims she is 40) like to think. In Paradise they are cast as a couple of gay young things in their middle 303, but the moving finger has inexorably written lines that contradict the ones they have to say. Their first fine rapture actually suggests a desperate last fling, their romantic moments sometimes seem mildly necromantic. The script, in any case, is guaranteed to make actors age rapidly. Almost every line in the picture ("I call this cocktail...