Word: clue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely accused of having abstained because neither side was willing to promise financial aid in return for its vote. If the U.S. had hinted that it would have liked to see the sanctions lifted, Guatemala's right-wing government might well have gone along, but with no such clue it abstained...
...visit to Broadway's Broadhurst Theater, where the 75-year-old American drama has been handsomely restored by England's Royal Shakespeare Company, proffers at least one clue to the enduring fascination of Sherlock Holmes. He has the mythic quality of a seer. He is a master illusionist of the mind, a cerebral magician. He simply does not belong in the ordinary annals of sleuthdom. Even such outstanding detectives as Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret and Philo Vance pile up and sift the facts. Holmes notes the evidence with something like X-ray vision and pulverizes it with weary...
Zappa's next release will be the clue as to whether or not he decides to go strictly commercial. If he has any integrity left, he should stick to his own inherent musical needs, as Charles Ives did at the turn of the century. On several of the Mothers' early albums, Zappa used to quote his idol, Edgar Varese: "The present-day composer refuses to die." I hope Zappa remembers these words...
...other aspects of the Holmes figure. The detective's penchants for frenetic violin playing, for contemplative shag-smoking, and for energetic telegraphing are all thrust into the story because they were effective in the original. The sacred Holmes sleuthing ritual--the animal-like absorption in the tracing of a clue--has been neatly reduced to a series of yelps, whines, and tremors that has been blandly placed into the narrative...
...only thing I knew for certain was that I hadn't a clue as to what was about to happen. That I would be living with Indians who lived across a river from a white town called St. Augustine, that there would be another American girl with me, that I would be teaching swimming, sailing and anything else I wanted, was all I had been told. Visions of igloos, wigwams, communcation gaps and teaching swimming among icebergs flashed vaguely through my mind. Yet the strangest thing of all was that, from the very beginning, there was no doubt...