Word: foreshadowing
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Although the appointments do not seem to foreshadow any shift in U.S. foreign policy they show again the President's ability to surround himself with advisers of proven ability...
...Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose .4% in July-the sixth monthly gain in a row. This lifted the nation's consumer price index to a record 113.3, or 13.3% above the base average of the years 1957-59. On top of that, wholesale prices-which normally foreshadow the future course of consumer prices-gained .7% in July after four months of relative stability...
Seeking a Collapse. Obviously, no TV viewer expected The German Confederation to foreshadow actual events in Germany during the next nine years. But Rudiger Altmann's fantasy-and the excitement it caused-were symptomatic of the buoyant mood on both sides of the Wall, and a new attitude toward reunification. Thanks to the relaxation of cold-war tensions, Germans today are nursing a growing though still amorphous hope that a start toward a peaceful solution to the problem of a divided Germany may now be found. Few have the illusion that the frozen ice of Central Europe...
...differences in appearance of the various forms foreshadow the deeper contrasts of their content. For instance, the Wilson, a one-year fellowship for students who are seriously considering a career in college teaching, encourages future teachers in psychological as well as financial ways: there is a personal, strolling-together through-the-groves-of-academe quality to all of the Wilson forms. All correspondence comes from, and is to be addressed to, the Chairman of your Regional Committee--not to an anonymous committee...
Characters who later appear in La Strada or 8 1/2 can be found, if you care to look for them. For example, a flabby stripper in the revue later turns up as the famous Saraghina in 8 1/2. Haggard actors tramping along dusty country roads surely foreshadow La Strada. By contrast, the extended aerial shots of Rome lack only the helicopter and Christ of La Dolce Vita...