Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister has gained admiration and trust in Quebec by his dramatic rumblings over American "intrusion" in Canadian affairs. Mr. Diefenbaker may "have the face of Bugs Bunny and sound like the voice of Moses"--but he fits the hero image better than Mr. Pearson. He has wagged his finger at Washington and he is a powerful "unequivocal-sounding" platform performer. And the crucial fact remains that the Prime Minister has not as yet begun his personal speaking campaign in Quebec...
...druggist. His perils and pratfalls as he develops his dubious talents in a flea-bitten acting school run by a haughty, boozed-up impresario (Alan Mowbray) and his daughter (Vivian Elaine) make for broad, boisterous fun. With his syrupy delivery, chipmunk facial grimaces and gift for lighting his own finger instead of the leading lady's cigarette. Arkin is a clownish glossary of theatrical ineptitude. Making his debut, he catapults onstage and swallows his voice whole, but, as his parents rightly say, "he's the best one." Thanks to Alan Arkin, a playgoer can Enter Laughing and exit...
Force or Farce? As for whose finger will be on the trigger of the new surface fleet, the U.S. agrees that each participating ally will have an equal veto. For all the argument it provokes, however, the question of control is largely academic; the fingers would be unanimous. "Do you really believe that Europe will want to shoot this thing off without being sure that the major U.S. force would be used?" asked a U.S. strategist. "Considering it as a second strike force, the semantics of voting becomes irrelevant...
Getting Explorer aloft was largely a Pickering triumph. He hurried to Washington and hollered at Army generals, urging them to demand permission to launch the satellite. He waved his finger and banged on desks, and the generals gained courage from his indignant earnestness...
Cards to Chicken. Today, as Mrs. Post prophesied, the mix-up is on in high gear. There is still a society where the placement of finger bowls is of some concern, but the more people who can afford-or choose to afford-finger bowls, the less important an issue their exact placement becomes. Though manners themselves are still an issue, they are a different set of manners for an increasingly classless society. Where once it mattered how to present a visiting card, now the question is how a guest in evening dress should handle barbecued chicken. Though contemporary society neither...