Word: coy
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Brooke played it coy. "As a Republican, I would be honored" by the offer, he told the press after a speech in Lynn. This statement was immediately interpreted to mean that Brooke would accept the nomination...
Answer: Harry Kellerman is the villain of a mystery-comedy. The questioner in the coy, interminable title of this film is Georgie Soloway (Dustin Hoffman). The mystery is why it should be called a comedy...
...some accommodation for him. He got the news shortly after the decision in December. The CRIMSON broke the story of the department's vote five days before Kissinger's tenure was scheduled to lapse, and his formal resignation came the following day. Queried about the CRIMSON report, he played coy and said, "This is a matter for the Govern-ment department and I would not know. I just resigned...
...bride living in a lonely cottage on a promontory where sea, earth and air come together, who becomes the focus of Hermic's discoveries, is presented with the necessary elusiveness of a dream (partly as a result of Mulligan's treatment of Herman Raucher's often underwritten and coy screenplay). But, because of the realistic, often comic development of the rest of the film, her character calls forth audience frustration rather than the desired sense of intrigue. Introduced in two slow motion sequences, she is surrounded by a lyricism that is forced and contrived. Throughout the middle of the film...
...side of the staircase was in effect a genetic mirror image of the other. Watson and Crick quickly recognized from the structure of their model how DNA worked. But their 900-word announcement in Nature, the international weekly published in Britain, concluded with one of the more coy statements in scientific literature. "It has not escaped our notice," they said, "that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material...