Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...election days approach and the campaigning begins to get more heated, some council members warn voters to beware of individuals who are too quick at pointing the finger...
...debut record, establishes a unique tone--relaxed but urgent, lazy but occasionally frenetic--that persists through 12 songs. The first of those, the endearing "Slide," breaks into a slightly askew half-speed aquatic-guitar trip with a catchy chorus and lyrics of subtle wit. "You can never give/ The finger to the blind," singer-guitarist Dean Wareham sings after an opening guitar solo, "Sometimes I act so stupid/ But you never seem to mind...
...suspects, Rodney Eugene Solomon, has a history of violence and drugs. A week earlier, Solomon, 26, had been released from a District of Columbia jail where he was being held on charges of distributing heroin. Solomon's next arrest, this time for Basu's murder, triggered a round of finger pointing between federal prosecutors and D.C. Superior Court Judge Reggie B. Walton. Each side blamed the other for failing to keep Solomon behind bars despite fears that he was a danger to the community. Walton, ironically, is a get-tough judge and a former prosecutor who served last year...
About these spectacles -- the Sister Souljah nonsense a few months ago, the Vice President of the U.S. wagging his finger at hallucinations of the popular culture, denouncing Murphy Brown, or telling the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, "I will continue to speak out against Ice-T," as if he were preparing for the Lincoln-Douglas debates -- there is something both confused and vaguely degrading. Something unworthy and a little stupid. Here is American history deterios. A homemade videotape could burn down a large section of Los Angeles. The videotape told a story: Los Angeles cops hit Rodney King on the head...
...first task Baker and his aides faced when they arrived at the White House was to impose order on a chaotic political operation. Decision making had ceased. Top-level meetings took hours and accomplished nothing. Second guessing and finger pointing were rampant. Advance men were refusing to journey to sites of future Bush events out of fear that they would be canceled en route. Bush had little confidence in his top advisers, and the strain was evident to anyone who watched him on television. Baker has told friends that before returning to the White House, he had discounted complaints about...