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Fingers is not an auspicious directorial debut. At the narrative level hardly an incident in the movie is credible. Dip beneath the plot and you arrive at a psychological sewer. Among several gratuitous shock tactics, Toback treats the audience to an on-screen prostate examination and the spectacle of two women's heads being smashed together. The film's most persistent Freudian motif is a phallus fixation that borders on the pathological. Though Toback tries hard to emulate the expressionistic style of Director Martin Scorsese, Fingers never amounts to more than a flamboyantly neurotic drive-in movie...
...increase in tuition, room and board costs for next year. However Harvard will cushion the annual blow by also increasing its financial aid awards so students on the bottom of the income scale will be able to cope with the increase. Those in upper income levels will probably just dip a little further into their bank accounts for fair Harvard without having to skimp much on spending elsewhere...
There were numerous handy explanations. From Washington came the unsettling news that the nation's index of leading indicators slipped 1.9% in January, the biggest dip in three years, while inflation speeded up. From Europe came a newspaper interview with West German Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff, who said that he "could not exclude" the possibility of the dollar's sinking...
...exploitation of the audience's rational and irrational fear of doctors and hospitals - the always reliable "Let me out of here!" reaction as the anesthesiologist's gas mask clamps down over the face, and the familiar "Yuck" effect as the surgeon's bloody hands dip into the body cavity. This is arrogant moviemaking: its assumption is that the proles will buy their tickets and march unprotestingly through the fun house no matter how evident is the contemptuousness of the barkers...
...Bandanna is rolled on the diagonal, and retains water fairly well. I keep it knotted around my head, and now and again dip it into the river. The water is forty-six degrees. Against the temples, it is refrigerant and relieving. This has done away with the head-aches that the sun caused in days before. The Arctic sun.--penetrating, intense--seems not so much to shine as to strike. Even the trickles of water that run down my T-shirt feel good. Meanwhile, the river--the clearest, purest water I have ever seen flowing over rocks--breaks the light...