When Koebel tried to record the encounter, she said Cox knocked the phone out of her hand, scratching her in the process.
Starved of inspiration and suffering writer's block, the poet sits on the end of his bed in his night gown, quill in hand, scratching his head.
In The Rat Catcher, on this month's cover, Rembrandt's light hand scratched a telling rat's tale in a local transaction between an itinerant peddler and a homeowner.
When I gave him my license and registration, his hands scratched mine during the interaction.
One recycles an old science-fiction film which Ms. Gallagher has hand-scratched to give certain figures glowing yellow eyes and wigs.
By her own choice or not, Ms. Anderson, wearing raccoon-like black eye shadow and affecting a quavering, high-pitched little girl's voice, gives a hand-scratching, head-twitching, crazy-lady performance that would have done Joan Crawford proud.
Allen controls every aspect of his films, down to advertising and distribution: with Zelig he exasperated the laboratories by personally supervising the hand-scratching of the simulated ancient newsreels.
Any collaboration featuring Mr. Lee, Mr. Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Yo-Yo Ma and the wizard martial arts choreographer Yuen Wo-Pisg is bound to spike expectations through the roof as well as start more than a few hands scratching heads in confusion.
While some old Albany hands scratched their heads about whether a comptroller could undo what a predecessor had done, the real question is why Gov. George Pataki or the New York State Thruway Authority, parent of the Canal Corporation, had not made this action unnecessary.
