Word: fingers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other candidates seem to stick their finger out into the polling wind, desperately seeking which way the voters blow. Dole collects endorsements from the establishment like trading cards as if that will be enough to win. Ordinary people are not looking for a political servant. They are looking for someone to articulate a message which they can support...
...score beats to a crescendo. A close-up of Travis's wide-open eyes reflects the gaudy neon lights of 42nd Street porn shops, as he absorbs the world about him for a fare. At times, his passivity seems to reappear in his actions. Travis sees the "pow-pow" finger motion of a fellow cabbie and imitates it later--in a drastically different context, perhaps suggesting how Travis is shaped by the world around...
Natchez doesn't make full eye contact at first, but he twirls a flute in his hand and covers different finger patterns. He's more comfortable using music to convey his meaning...
...remake of the obscure "Pink Orange Red." Like 1984's "The Spangle-Maker," their most accessible and popular song to date, "Pink Orange Red" never really resolves. The first minute of the song consists of Fraser's tentative vocals hovering over three muted piano chords. Fragile acoustic finger-picking and the barely audible pulse of synthesized strings are slowly woven in while Fraser's voice soars to subtly cathartic heights. The song ends by spiraling into a minute of vocal trilling that calls to mind the continuous, fluttering fall of autumn leaves...
...loss of $69 million during the critical Christmas fourth quarter, while IBM was showing a 41 percent profit for the same period, that caused its stock to drop 10 percent. "Apple Chief Executive Michael Spindler is going to look more and more like the little boy with the finger in the dike if he tries to stop a merger or takeover," says TIME's David Jackson. "Despite Markkula's denial, Apple must take drastic measures to survive. The smaller Apple's market share gets, and it's now at about 10 percent, the less appeal it has to software developers...