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Word: fingers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have reconciled after a recent separation--she seemed ready for a camera to swoop down for an adoring close-up. Yet she also flashed some feisty homegirl attitude. "People think I'm Miss Prissy Pooh-Pooh, but I'm not; I like to have fun," she says, jabbing a finger in the air. "I can get down, really freakin' dirty with you. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, with two brothers and a very strong father. It made me tough--perhaps too tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITNEY HOUSTON: NO MISS PRISSY | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...overcame my DIMS. And immediately contracted an acute case of DAS--Doom addiction syndrome. In the space of a week, I was late for two meetings, canceled three lunches and spoke curtly to friends and family. Worse, my trigger finger has begun to itch when, in real life, I round the corner to the coffee machine. The demons, I fear, are everywhere. I plan to worry about that later, after I escape from Level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A REVENANT ON MY BACK | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

Gingrich was furious. He kicked off an 11th-hour meeting last Monday night with Clinton by refusing to let McCurry attend the parley unless the Speaker's own press secretary could be present. Tempers quickly flared inside the Cabinet Room. When Clinton pointed a finger at House majority leader Dick Armey, the Texan complained, "Perhaps it's my Western upbringing, but I don't listen very well when someone's pointing a finger in my face." The President retorted with his own lesson in etiquette. Dredging up Armey's attack on Hillary Clinton during last year's health-care debate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STICKS AND STONES | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...Henchman (or -woman): Oddjob, Jaws, Rosa Klebb--this is a job for grotesques. Gottfried John as a rogue Russian general looks weird all right, but he has no unique killing skills--just a sneer and a routinely itchy trigger finger. Richard Kiel, you are missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SHAKY, NOT STIRRING | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...beam of a supernova, a demagogue's dazzle. It was more infrared, the kind that warms without burning. He seemed comfortable, respectable, most of all normal--too normal to run for the White House, which meant that he became the most popular candidate on the landscape without lifting a finger or spending a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENERAL LETDOWN | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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