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She runs into Tony and his gang at a restaurant and flirts with them, of all things, much to her dismay later, when she repeats to her shrink, played by Peter Bogdanovich, what she said when she waved goodbye: "Toodle-fuckin'-oo?
For more than three decades, social scientists have been studying the costs and benefits of child care, and their work has yielded only one consistent result: Their research is seized upon, waved about, politicized, and in the end, nothing much gets done.
The recent twist has been to note the fact that longbows are traditionally made of yew wood, and claim that the act of drawing the bowstring was called plucking yew; the victorious English not only waved their fingers at the French, but shouted We can still pluck yew!
"I couldn't do my current job without them," said Justice Antonin Scalia yesterday as he waved something in the air.
(For rush to judgment, click .) And while she is literally correct that flags were waved and technically accurate that torches were not brandished, isn't there a deeper brandishing, a rich symbolic brandishing?