Word: wrists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chases women in Manhattan bars, has his own patented method of checking for herpes. When the chitchat has moved far enough along that the woman is peering his way with bedroom eyes, he caresses her right hand, then presses his thumb sharply down on her wrist and barks: "You have herpes, don't you?" "If her pulse jumps, she has it," he says. "If she doesn't, she just laughs." Sometimes, of course, a woman is offended by his personalized lie-detector test. "I lose a few women that way," he says with a shrug, "but at least...
...When Reagan approved, the N.S.C. decided to defer the formal notification to Congress of U.S. intentions to sell 75 F-16 fighters to Israel. But the slowdown, which has no time limit, will have little impact, since the aircraft are not to be delivered until 1985. To ease the wrist tap even further, the announcement of the deferral was made quietly...
...earth supposedly keeps one general clock and calendar as it twirls in a universe precisely machined. The minute pulses of quartz vibrating on the wrist imitate the clockwork of the planets. We stripe the globe with time zones. Time is the most predictable of abstractions, a one-directional flow that carries the universe along with its impartial and inexorable wave. The discovery of measurable time is one of the early signs of civilization, like literacy and cosmetics. Time may be mysterious, but it also possesses an admirable objective purity, a sort of narrative genius, like Tolstoy...
...Today show: "I counted, because, with two other black writers, I'd been on her show for nine minutes." On the jailing of a black writer who is a drug addict: "Mailer almost did in his ole lady and got nothing but a slap on the wrist, and here Ike is, doin' it to himself. " On black college students at the affirmative-action gate: "I see them a few years down the line, having smacked the wall, backing away, murmuring, 'I be goin' to figure this out.' " Douglass's own conclusions are black...
Fullerton began guiding the remote-controlled arm, essential for retrieving satellites in the future, through various maneuvers, extending it and flexing its joints, only to discover that a TV camera on its "wrist" had failed. Another camera at the rear of the cargo bay succumbed as well. Even so, the remaining camera at the arm's "elbow" was providing clear pictures, including shots of the nose showing where tiles had been damaged or lost. While reviewing films of the launch, technicians discovered that still other tiles had fallen off the top surface of the shuttle's big body...