Word: thumbs
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...Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, that's precisely the kind of underdog spirit the crowd lives for - a spirit driven in part by their hunger for great films, but also partly by a desire to thumb their noses at movie studio executives who claim to know what audiences want. As Ebert said during a post-film discussion, reacting to a suggestion that a studio didn't think one of the festival's 12 selected titles would appeal to the youth market: "We cannot be held captive to a bunch of illiterate 16-year-olds...
...with their mobile phones. Charles Anderson, who had suffered a mild stroke, said the Queen "is very warm, very easy to talk to. Helluva job she's got. I wouldn't want it." She stopped to chat with Linda Patterson, whose arm was in a cast after breaking her thumb. "I think I'm going to cry, I'm so excited!" Patterson said a few seconds later...
...Sympathy for the Devil,” told in the first-person as Lucifer himself, links Beelzebub with Russia’s communist October Revolution. Not exactly the most endearing track to play for a bunch of ostensibly Maoist Chinese. “Under My Thumb,” on the other hand, might appeal to foot-binders and other social conservatives...
...Thumb through the crisp pages of “Prep,” and one discovers a high school world foreign to most of the American population...
...scene with the exodus of rural musicians to Kinshasa, the bustling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. To be heard above the urban roar, the story goes, bands had to create homemade amplification systems for their drums and “likembé” thumb pianos. They made microphones from old car parts, new electric guitars from cast-offs, and junk percussion from whatever they could find to keep the beat—hubcaps, tin cans, glass bottles. Last year, Konono No.1—a tradi-modern Congolese group—brought the makeshift sounds...