Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...process of elimination points the finger rather squarely at K. Lype O'Dell and Marjorie Lerstrom, who, as Vanya and Yelena, are responsible for holding the play together. But from O'Dell one gets only the sense of a dull, complaining man. One does not find in this Vanya the education with which Astrov credits him, nor the profound melancholy the others are constantly pointing out. His philosophy comes out flat; if there is one scene in the play that is disastrously bad it is his soliloquy early in Act II, where, instead of protest at a wasted life...
...several Cape Cod have begun finger- and photographing summer employees in in an effort to keep increasing number of teen-agers and college flock to the Cape each...
...caught in a crossfire, his stomach full of shrapnel; next to him was the corpse of André Rivière, a French soldier of fortune who was one of Caamaño's top aides. When they carted him out, a young rebel dramatically poked a finger into Riviére's still-oozing neck wound and daubed the blood on his rifle trigger...
...Code. Late that night, Becker, Mrs. Hayden and Truscott met privately and went to work on the finger code itself. It was Mrs. Hayden who broke it. "Let's see," she said, "on that hand he held up one finger; his hand showed only one heart. Maybe this holds true for other hands." Checking the records of past hands against notes that they had made during the observations, the trio found the pattern. One finger meant a singleton heart. Two fingers together meant two hearts; two spread in a V shape meant five. Three fingers clenched meant three hearts...
...Charlie.' " Marvin hasn't, so far, even in the most hopeless of moments. In one movie, after killing everyone in sight, he is approached by two cops. Unarmed and badly wound ed, Marvin does the only thing left: he cocks his right hand and points his finger bang-bang-bang at the cops. Hardcore Marvin fans figure that the loss of blood was what made him miss...