Word: fingernails
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...this reader, his puerile exegeses of such systems of theology, philosophy, epistemology and, for that matter, bath-taking, as he has brought under the batteries of his irredeemably third-class mind bring much the same kind of pain as does unexpectedly bending back a fingernail below the quick...
...Anka, Tommy Sands and Fabian, making a scene in Darryl Zanuck's The Longest Day, the story of the Normandy invasion. Part way up the cliff, Anka was dropped by a speck of sand in his eye and, returning to the fray, was later immobilized by a torn fingernail. "Medic!" someone shouted, and World War II stopped dead in its tracks. Near General Zanuck's yellow camp chair stood a real U.S. Ranger, on hand to give technical advice. "These guys," he said helpfully, "don't have what it takes...
...central Mirisch is Harold, 54, a quietly tailored man who wears black-rimmed glasses and cannot contain himself at cocktail parties: he weaves in and out among the stars, offering them half a million here, half a million there, while his brothers Marvin, 43, and Walter, 39, eat fingernail canapes. At home almost every night, Harold watches motion pictures projected through openings in his living-room wall (when not in use, the little windows are covered with reproductions of masterpieces...
...year or two a reform Administration. Nor have I had much patience with those who would like to punish [Judge] Thayer by impeachment or any other process. Unfrock him and his judicial robes would fall upon a pair of shoulders not different by the thickness of a fingernail...
There are times when Rivers seems more whimsical than profound, but neither he nor the paintings he produces could ever be said to be boring. "If your interest is in features and fingernails," says he of his current phase, "the colors you choose will be subjected to that. But when painting a fingernail no longer interests you, then color itself takes over. There is a subordination of subject matter to a kind of force: the force of a red is what I am more curious about now than delineating a nostril...