Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene the Clubman he was defied by gravity. The Nairobi Trio, composed of three derbied apes, played a hilarious composition for xylophone, mallet and finger bone. There was even a custard...
...range for exposure to a parade of memory-rattling acquaintances, some of whom they have forgotten (or would just as soon forget). But the Manassa Mauler was caught with his guard down in the middle of the ring in a packed Hollywood Legion Stadium, and he never laid a finger on Edwards...
...managing director had given them 20 minutes before they would have to go back to work. A short, grey-haired visitor stepped forward, his blue eyes blazing, his arms pumping violently. "Sin, sin," he cried. "Sin is gnawing away at the human heart. I'm not pointing the finger of accusation at you. I know, as I stand here today, I'm in the same trouble as you. But I know I've found the answer-Jesus Christ . . . There's only one time to get right with...
...Wanda Landowska, the new album marks a return to piano recording after an absence of 20 years (she recorded Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto for the coronation of George VI in 1936). During part of that time she was engaged in her monumental harpsichord recording of the 48 rippling, finger-cracking preludes and fugues that constitute Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, which she called "my last will and testament." When she was persuaded to leave a codicil to that will, she turned again to the piano ("my first love") and to Mozart. She sighs: "Mozart was my first nature...
...their capacity by 1965, another 25% by 1975. Others are just as optimistic. Planemakers, who have the biggest backlog ($3.5 billion) of civilian plane orders in their history, feel that they are just getting started. "Of course I'm bullish," says Boeing President William McPherson Allen, moving his finger along an upward-slanted line on a chart. "The volume of airline traffic is bound to go up like this each year, between 10% and 15%. The jet will tend to accelerate it by shrinking the world...