Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer their fair white bodies to the herdsman hero (William Holden) like so much fatback on a plate. The manners of the Southern gentleman are exemplified by a courtly colonel (Richard Widmark) who, in an episode obviously intended to titillate amateur analysts, shoots off the hero's little finger...
...complaints, Krock has no intention of retiring from his longtime job of watching the world around him with a critical eye. He turned down all offers to organize farewell parties; he will keep his office in the Times bureau. And there he plans to continue with his two-finger typing. What he will produce, he says, is uncertain. For one thing, he has not made up his mind whether it is proper for him to write his memoirs. Besides, "I'm lazy as hell and have been all my life. I'm mentally indolent"-an observation that...
...past 16 months he's been practicing his art in a Manhattan shop as well. Trouble is, New York State requires a license for that sort of thing, and it wants him to take its hairdresser exam. "Asinine and obsolete," said Sassoon. "The test requires that I do finger waving and reverse pin curling-things that haven't been used since Gloria Swanson was in silent movies." It wasn't that he couldn't do these things, he added, but that he wouldn't. Responded the New York State secretary of state...
While doing his thesis research, Author Epstein turned up a "supplemental" FBI report dated Jan. 13, 1964 that threw some doubt on all this. The report said that the bullet that struck Kennedy's neck had penetrated "less than a finger-length"-a conclusion that, if true, meant it could not have gone through and hit Connally. This report is the basis for the belief that after Jan. 13 the autopsy report was changed for some devious reason, most likely to rule out the existence of a second assassin. The facts, however, are much simpler: FBI reports are dated...
...clear that Khrushchev wouldn't have lifted a finger to help Nixon get elected dogcatcher. The Communist boss described Nixon as "an intellectually limited" man who "produces the impression of a slightly fraudulent, petty storekeeper, capable of selling tainted herring or representing kerosene-soaked sugar as good merchandise." (The statement was made some time before Khrushchev himself came to be regarded by his own associates as a handy fellow with a tainted herring...