His is a finger-based thought process, a tactile conceptualism that began fifty years ago with his ad hoc eraser sculptures and evolved through decades of paintings, assemblages, designs, performances and sculptural feats of engineering and labor-intensive treatments -- yet still yields results as intimate as the thumbprints visible in the serpentine locks of Contessa's arboreal tresses.
One of the objects, the palma, or palmate stone (shaped like a hand with extended fingers), was first thought to have had some religious significance.
Here I saw only business, the interventionists practically rubbing their thumbs over their next three fingers with the thought of the moolah this guy's treatment would bring them.
And it isn't just that the score is marked up by Beethoven and bears the traces of the Master's thought and fingers.
On television, however, it's deemed perfectly acceptable to visually interrupt my viewing with the poorly thought-out finger droppings of people I've never expressed any desire to hear from.
"He is a very valued member of our side," said Mott. "It will come to a head in the next six to seven days, I would of thought, and fingers crossed.
The idea is that Vladimir Putin pauses for thought while his finger hovers over the button, and is put off destroying London because our secret submarine will send missiles to destroy Moscow.
One day he nearly chopped off a finger, and "the very first thought I had was, 'I'll never have to play the clarinet again.' " Many years later, just before his last retirement, one of his sidemen noticed the same ambivalence.
Limited as they are, these are extraordinary achievements.Had South Africa carried out Nuremberg-style trials, apartheid's silent supporters might have comforted themselves with the thought that the finger pointing at the guilty was aimed at "them"—the men in the dock.
I really couldn't put a finger on it, but the thought that came to me was "what in the world was I thinking?" In the midst of being obedient to God, we may ask ourselves that very same question.
