Word: bespeak
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...some of the dancing is truly funny. The Busby Berkeley extravaganzas are a real joy, screaming with a "camera-as-new-toy" aestheticism. The footage from the "Stone Age," the early years of dance on film, features clumsy chorus lines whose tubby legs bespeak better cooking than choreography. Clowning aside, That's Dancing includes a superb dance by Eleanor Powell, the greatest female tapper ever who, because of her less-than-mediocre acting, never enjoyed the popular fame her footwork deserved. On the floor, she is simply astonishing. Another inclusion oft-neglected elsewhere is the Nicholas Brothers' rubber-legged vaudeville...
Interviews with important bishops in several nations bespeak a wary hesitation to criticize Opus openly...
...quite mundane--flushable toilets, electricity, and cars: Good Housekeeping magazine is their window on the promised land. What makes their prosaic vision doubly absurd is the peaceful beauty of their own surroundings: the vivid, innocent colors of the Indians' clothing and buildings; the quivering flowers and butterflies which bespeak a continual breeze; the soothing strum of a villager's harp; and the background warbling of exotic birds...
...defense increases, however, bespeak an even more dangerous evil in our society. President Reagan arrived in Washington advocating a policy of international confrontation and the boost in the defense budget is but one example of the militarism that dominates Washington today. Reagan's refusal to keep his promise to end draft registration is another. An agreement in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) was one of the few achievements of the Carter administration (ultimately undone in the Senate), and the Reagan administration's reluctance to discuss disarmament or even arms limits shows paranoia getting the best of common sense...
...signals. Try as he may, he does not look like a diplomat. The stripes on his gray suit are a shade too bold, while his tassled loafers, the gold I.D. bracelet (A.M. HAIG) on his right wrist, his barrel chest and the piercing stare from his blue eyes all bespeak the general