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Aroostook Country, ME--If you take a map of the United States and place your thumb over Maine, Aroostook County lies directly under your thumbnail. And where the eastern part of your thumb meets the Canadian border, you'll find Fort Fairfield, home of "Spud-stock...
Wylie's 1977 book Beaux Gestes, A Guide to French Body Talk (with Harvard photographer Rick Stafford), shows a bespectacled Wylie biting his thumb, tapping his nose and demonstrating other gestures common to French culture...
...mainland communists, Taiwan's simple existence as an offshore rival under the rule of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist heirs is an open rebuke of their legitimacy and a thumb in their eye -- even as they pursue detente with the island's regime and ardently court Taiwan investment and trade. China's leaders are wondering whether Clinton was signaling both a reversal of 23 years of Sino-American rapprochement and a precedent for other countries, including Japan, to follow. A Western diplomat in Beijing remarked, "I think what is of concern to them is less the specific development than...
Hours after Asahara's arrest, a parcel bomb exploded at Tokyo City Hall, injuring two people. One of them, an aide to Tokyo Governor Yukio Aoshima, lost his left hand and right thumb in the blast. No one took responsibility and police have established no link to Aum Shinri Kyo. The package was addressed to Aoshima, who recently announced that he wascanceling the Aum cult's status as a religious organization...
...Barnum is known to many as the founder of the Barnum & Bailey circus, or perhaps as the man behind tiny General Tom Thumb and Jumbo the Elephant (whose charred remains and untarnished tail can still be found at Tufts). Barnum was indeed a legend in his time with his constant attractions, frauds and hoaxes. He has become a central figure in any study of American popular culture, and is as much an American cultural icon as the Statue of Liberty or Marcia Brady...