Word: thumb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Stewart, the vocal backbone of the group, has written a fast-fingered guitar interview with Donald Duck that takes a poke at the Disney menagerie and a swing at President Johnson to boot: "Goofy has so much to say, he changed his place with L.B.J." Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, the album's lead cut, shows what a strong emphasis on clear vocals and tight arrangement can do for a Bob Dylan song. It is certainly the right approach in the further development of West...
...learn a lesson easily, Rose took a dive after a hard-hit ball in the July 5 game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The National League's No. 1 vote getter in All-Star balloting, Rose sat out the classic with a broken thumb, spent 23 days on the inactive roster. Now that he has recovered, the Cincinnati management can only pray and do what it can to keep its zealous star whole-such as emphatically denying him permission to play in an amateur football league this fall...
...Laurie with meticulous care, but he cannot quite manage that sudden, sneering, swooping descent into vulgarity that Osborne demands. When Scofield has to talk about some woman giving "the golden sanitary towel award," he seems to be holding the line out at arm's length between a fastidious thumb and forefinger...
There is, of course, the question of George Harrison's finger. On the back cover, you will see that he has his hand at his waist, clenched into a fist. Something that should be his thumb, but looks more like a hot dog, is sticking up. It is really too long to be a thumb but it could be a thumb turned backwards by trick photography. In any case it is pointing directly at the line "five o'clock." If you extend the line of his "finger" up across the album with a ruler you will find that this line...
...Thumb P. T. Barnum