Word: fingertipping
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...Forum was one of the hottest burlesque shows that ever hit Broadway. It had a grossly libidinous libretto snippeted out of the plays of Plautus, and lickerish leerics that read like Pompeian graffiti. Above all, it had a huge round Zero named Mostel, who wore a fingertip tunic the size of a pup tent and went tippety-skipping about the stage like a bull walrus in drag...
...promyshlenniki (freelance explorers) drooled at the thought of the cargo brought back by the crew: fox, seal and otter pelts. Soon these 18th century venture capitalists, some in flimsy river boats that were bound with leather thongs, were spanning the 1,500 sea miles to the Aleutian fingertip and beyond...
...second quarter, Robert Wels hauled in one between three B.C. defenders and sprinted by them all for the Crimson's first touchdown. And in the Yardlings' fourth-quarter drive, Carter Lord made a leaping, fingertip grab that left the spectators gasping...
...sculptural shapes dominate Collie's show at Manhattan's Nordness Gallery. One is a tilted disk that looks like a model of a flying saucer. Such disks jiggle at a fingertip touch, but may weigh as much as 13 Ibs.-as a thief discovered when he tried to whisk one away from the Chrysler Art Museum, only to have it drop with a clang. The second, also a space-age motif, resembles the hollow cone of a missile. Inside, visible from both ends, are two metallic spheres, one hanging down like a tiny bathysphere on its nylon thread...
...oversized to eliminate water moaning, walls and ceilings are fully insulated, and almost every partition is a floor-to-ceiling storage wall. Doorways are 36 in. wide to permit easy passage of wheelchairs, wall plugs are 2 ft. off the floor to minimize stooping, light switches are at fingertip height, about 30 in. off the floor for effortless flipping by an arthritic...