Word: hint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...store show windows in the gusty middle of March, they hold the promise of summer in every synthetic strand; mannequins plant tanned plastic legs in the cardboard surf, shading their painted eyes against a light bulb of a sun, and even the earliest shopper sniffs about anxiously for a hint of sea smell in the icy air. But by April's end, summer seems only split seconds away; across the U.S. last week, bathing suit sales began to show something of the shape to come. The classic one-piece is here to stay, but the more adventuresome like...
Lazarillo moves on to other masters, among them one of the most appealing creatures of the Spanish imagination, a knight-aberrant who is obviously a direct literary ancestor of Don Quixote. The dear fellow is a physical coward who runs at the first hint of a fight, but later, safe in his bedroom, rips out his rapier and slaughters imaginary myriads. He is so poor he seldom eats more than twice a week-in one hilarious frame the camera wistfully observes that his chamber pot is filled with cobwebs. But he is proud. Whenever he leaves the house, he picks...
...refused to attempt to bore. Mr. Lyons' rebellion, happily enough, has extended to a complete repudiation of his part. He is the Duke; not Shakespeare's Duke, to be sure, but a dazzlingly royal admixture of Hapsburg and Abdul Hammid, of Bette Davis and John Finley, with perhaps a hint of Angela Lansbury and Major Strasser. When he is on the stage, he does not dominate so much as devastate the pretensions of everyone else. He is, in fact, infinitely more attractive than Shakespeare's Duke ever can be; it is as though Laughton were playing Peter O'Toole...
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...graduate put toward a new argument, the Robes Thesis: "At the tutorial the student wears the undignified commoner's gown, a jacket of black cloth reaching hardly to the waist. The tutor, however, is dressed in the magnificently flowing black robes of a Master of Arts. This gives a hint of the Oxford notion of the proper relationship between teacher and pupil: the leader is one who knows and the pupil learns from...