Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sport offers so much to so many. Boxing's heroes are papier-mache champions. Hockey is gang warfare, basketball is for gamblers, and Australia is too far to travel to see a decent tennis match. Even baseball, the sportswriters' "national pastime," can be a slow-motion bore: finger resin bag, touch cap, look for sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football...
...with it, to paint objects in terms of "the echoes they have placed in our souls." He had "heard the voices of the trees," he said. "I wanted to talk with them and to be able to tell myself by this other language-painting-that I had put my finger on the secret of their majesty...
...those who came in late-anyone under 40-it should be explained that Upton Sinclair, now 84, has had his finger in every pious and progressive cause since 1900 and has published 90 books, most of this unimaginable wordage being in the promotion of beliefs that range from socialism and mental telepathy to vegetarianism and teetotalism, and against Mammon-variously embodied as Privilege, the Trusts, the House of Morgan, the Press, etc. As monument, the book is touchingly human. As autobiography, it is something less; success in that elusive art is achieved only by those whose quarrel has been with...
...look at-Cameraman Henri Decaë laves his park and his pond and his wandering darlings in a Proustian pallor of times lost. It is formidably well-played-Kruger finely suggests both Cupid and psycho, and Gozzi is a born actress with big brown eyes and a pretty little finger to wrap fathers around. And it is composed with surprising finesse-Director Serge Bourguignon, who at 31 had never before made a full-length film, makes images as surely as a peacock makes feathers...
...having acquired a wife, he shot her between the eyes playing William Tell with a revolver. (The Mexican authorities decided it was imprudentia criminate and dropped the whole matter.) He has even been in the Army, but not for long; he reacted to being drafted by cutting off a finger joint, and was discharged with the notation "not to be recalled or reclassified...