Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience responded with both jeers and frustrated hand gestures to the footage of former Sen. Alan M. Cranston (D-Calif.) and Sen. Orrin B. Hatch (R-Utah) aggressively questioning Anita V. Hill. One woman raised her middle finger repeatedly at Thomas' image on the screen...
Self-pity is one ingredient in the black brew. Slivovitz, plum brandy, taken in great quantities, starting at breakfast time, is another; alcohol numbs the conscience and lubricates the trigger finger. The sacrament of slivovitz -- though some get there without it -- helps keep Serbs, both fighters and sideline supporters -- in that fourth dimension of tribal passion where heroic patriotism and great atrocity become equally possible. This is the dimension of tribal memory, drifting in time, across centuries. Grievances float through the dimension like ghosts, crying out for justice -- for the Serbs whom the Croats massacred during the Hitler years...
...recent chart tyrant for Whitney Houston), expand the reach of country music to both coasts and most places in between. But Parton is her own best interpreter. Country guitar picker Chet Atkins gives her this impish praise: "She has more talent than I've got in my little finger...
...climax. In other songs, the scanning of religious symbols becomes a numbing succession, like a bored teenager channel-surfing cable networks. Judas the betrayer. Zap. MTV. Zap. The heavenly host. It's religiosity chic and not the thing itself. Something essential is missing -- true faith perhaps. Zap. The trigger finger of Depeche Mode (French for fast fashion) flips the channel changer to the next emotion, the next trend...
...experience at Harvard, one of the best aspects of it for me was that I worked not just as an actor, which is what I've ended up, but a director, a designer, I directed a dance prove in Leveret House. I directed two operas [The Marriage of Finger in Leveret House and The Begger's Opens in Address Houses]. I worked with dancers from the Boston Conservatory and designers from the design school, and architecture students, because I had many other interests besides acting. When I came to Harvard, I was much more interested in painting than in acting...