Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shaking Felix's hand is like putting on a tight leather glove. His fingers are short, thick, powerful, with the nails trimmed close. Fingertips are black with polish, calloused, and scuffed like rough-cut pine. The skin is cracked splintered, not just on the tips but down the finger to the palm, He is strong, but not with the manicured muscles of the beauty parlor weight room. His barrer-shaped forearms have been built by forty years of intense, detailed work, banding thick leather to his bidding...
...help make the country's perceptions happen." This week we have an example. During a campaign in which the voters are giving every sign of being sick of sound bites and slogans, we persuaded the two leading Democratic contenders for the presidency to pause for an hour between their finger pointing and photo opportunities and sit down for an exclusive sleeves-up, statistics-rich duel over their economic prescriptions for the country...
...through the quivering tissue, simultaneously sealing the wound by laying down a triple row of surgical staples. A few more snips and the task is complete. Sugarbaker, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, draws a 10-cm-long sliver of lung through a finger-size hole in the patient's side and sends it for biopsy...
...both -- which helps explain why the Bush- Quayle campaign organization is currently divided over tactics. The re- election team has begun to exhibit a Dukakis-like tendency to botch easy wins, like the photo-op-that-failed with Ronald Reagan in California two weeks ago. Backbiting and finger pointing are rife. Bush's speeches, never memorable in good days, now range from disjointed to enigmatic, bouncing randomly from Cuban independence to the budget deal to trade issues, and leaving many listeners scratching their head. Campaign chairman Bob Teeter, under fire from colleagues for keeping too much to himself, is worried...
Last week Gravano described his 1976 induction into the Gambino family, a solemn ceremony over which Castellano presided. The man whose murder Gravano would later help orchestrate pricked the novice's trigger finger and dripped blood onto the picture of a saint, which was then set on fire...