Word: thumbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chugged my remaining rum-and-coke and bolted, motel room a serious five miles down the road. I reached in my bag, turned on the Stones tape, and stuck out my thumb...
...other soloists are either stock characters or vehicles of sprightly choreography, with only the vaguest relations to plot. Anamarie Sarazin's Evil Fairy was a gratifyingly serpentine siren, complete with green dragon wings, gaudy sequins and decadent black stockings a la Toulouse-Lautrec; the wedding guests, from Tom Thumb (Tony Catanzaro) to a White Cat (Debra Mili) were equally charming and improbable...
There are few such dispensaries, however. And the rule of thumb is that if the cost of repair is more than one-third of the original purchase price of the appliance, better junk...
Spurred on by the spectacular goaltending of Hartley Rogers, Harvard came back from a 2-0 deficit to tally three second-period goals that put Bowdoin at a 4-2 disadvantage midway through the period, with Yeomalakis, returning from a thumb injury, assisting on two of the goals...
Brown begins the first dance--a solo called "Accumulation"--with a simple gesture; turning her forearm over and back at a steady pace, she flips her thumb from side to side. Her other forearm then mirrors the action. She repeats both gestures and adds a third, then starts over again and adds a fourth. After 15 or so "Accumulated" movements, the dance ends. Like the first gesture, the hitchhiker's thumbs wagged side to side rather than held steady as we are accustomed to seeing it. Many of the movements appear out of place but there is a deadpan humor...