Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over there. The Russians did with me what they felt like for three years. Because of those three years I had to have some operations, quite a few of them. These people harmed me so much in my young life I would never even move just a little finger for them...
...still conscious: "He was black in the mouth, and his tongue swoln that he could not speak, his lips shrunk to the gums; and he knocked his breast with his hands until one of his arms fell off, what time the fat, water, and blood dropped out at his finger ends." More hideous still was the burning of Perrotine Massey who, "being great with child, did fall on her side in the fire, where as the belly of the woman brast asunder, the infant fell into the fire, and being taken out was had to the bailiff, who gave censure...
...slow-witted Brechtian soldier of dumb pluck who believes that he has finally wised up to the ways of the wicked war breeders. He plans to string up the skeleton and then mow down the town bigwigs in wrathful reprisal, a mortal atonement for war guilt. His trigger finger is numbed by the playwright: "You can't cure the pox by further whoring." This is presumably Arden's pacifist manifesto...
Violinist Isaac Stern, 45, bowed solemnly to the audience, tucked the fiddle under his chin, and began a vibrant performance of Schubert's Ave Maria. Suddenly, he vibrated a few perfectly awful noises, fudging the notes with the middle finger of his left hand. Stern's audience was the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, which was hearing an $85,000 damage suit brought by his old friend, Violinist Eric Rosenblith, who claims that an attendant at a car-rental agency in Allentown, Pa., slammed a door on his fingers, thereby impairing his ability to perform. After the rental...
...Horton Foote novel adapted by Playwright Lillian Hellman, Producer Sam Spiegel (Lawrence of Arabia) hired Director Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker) to whip up a scathing, lopsided indictment of a small town somewhere in Texas. With Star Marlon Brando as chief jeer-leader, the movie smugly points an accusing finger at all the wrong, wrong deeds done by precisely the right people...