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The Democrats are, by inclination, the party of outstretched palms, the Republicans the party of tight fists.
Most celebrated is the tortured Laocoön group (from Rhodes, first century b.c. –first century a.d. ), only recently returned more closely to its pristine state by the removal of one statue’s outstretched arm added by over-zealous 16th-century “restorers”).
The road ends at a fine miradouro, where a statue of Christ stands with arms outstretched (a miniature version of the statues at Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon).
A common sight in China (either one) is two individuals closely observing the upturned, outstretched palm of one while the other “draws” ideographs on that palm with a forefinger.
Toward the center of Michelangelo’s ceiling, you’ll make out the celebrated outstretched finger of man’s creation, filled out by the drunkenness of Noah, the turmoil of the Flood.