Word: fisted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clenched fist flew into Nick H. Weil '00 and instantly, the audience knew this was no ordinary Harvard show. Saturday night, during a production of the Gershwin musical "Crazy for You" at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, the fake fighting on the stage got out of hand and real blood was spilled. "It didn't hurt," Weil recounts of the stage fight gone bad. "I just whirled around as usual. I did everything as choreographed, and then as I was bent over, I saw pools of blood on the stage." But even after the incident, he decided to keep performing--after...
...Blade Runner. (Haven't seen it? Don't.) Fiennes, a subtle actor, is forced to explicitly identify every emotional state his character enters. Does Bendrix really need to tell us how "tortured" he feels when we can see for ourselves a miserable Fiennes gulping whiskey and slamming his fist onto a table with rage...
...Students go here!" Redmond exclaimed, pounding the table with her fist. "The University would be nothing without its students...
...that exact moment--group therapy, meditation, laundry. This enthusiasm was both his greatest strength and perhaps his fatal flaw. If on the job he channeled that eagerness into getting a client interested in a new script or a studio in a project, in treatment he pumped his fist about how great it felt to be drug free. He was always, consummately, in the moment. And for him, there had been some pretty hairy moments. He had begun doing cocaine about six months before, and in a pattern familiar to most addicts had gradually been increasing his consumption until...
...Iranian political order. But these days, Asgharzadeh is a changed man. At 44, he is a yuppie-ish politician with a seat on Tehran's municipal council, and he is frequently denounced by hard-liners. He has shaved his beard and clearly prefers cracking jokes to raising a clenched fist. Puffing as he escorts an American visitor up a few flights at city hall, down the street from the desolate embassy compound, he says, laughing, "I guess I'm better at climbing over walls than walking up staircases...