Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That said, the movie is a model of technical perfection. Plot strands are neatly tied, Holmes and Watson are elegantly formed to fit neatly into what we already know of their future careers, and an absurdly pristine romance is thrown in to hint at Holmes' dissolute personality and later flirtation with drug...
...Here's a hint--it goes beyond both the words containing seven letters, the second and fifth of which are "a"s and the sixth of which...
...Onscreen, they displayed the gentle chafing that is the sign of marital harmony, not discord. Diana, far from coming across as the Princess Peabrain that some have called her, was confident and rarely tongue-tied; with that ever so sly, slightly lidded look of hers, she imparted the gentlest hint of irony to the proceedings. The coaching that she received from Gandhi Director Sir Richard Attenborough paid off. Charles even provided a touch of Piccadilly farce by draping a handkerchief over his head to distract Sons William, 3, and Henry, 1, and then mugging like an attenuated version...
...only hint we are given about why Alice might be holding on to both her bumbling fools comes from her interplay with her two women friends. Cynthia (Charlotte de Turckheim), whose job seems to amount to hosing down naked men in a Trouville hospital, marries a weather forecaster who has a nervous breakdown during the wedding ceremony and returns to his ex-wife shortly afterwards. Solange (Dominique Lavanant), a flautist in a not-ready-for-prime-time orchestra, always seems to be stuck in sad love triangles or with married men and constantly worries that she will...
Brookner re-creates the world of the immigrant high bourgeoisie with convincing selectivity. Its style and manners are indistinguishably British, with only a hint that the Dorns, apparently Jewish, belong to a community within a community. The characters are defined largely through their social behavior. Sofka: "A shy woman, virtuous and retiring, caring only for her % children, but determined to fulfil her role as duenna, as figurehead, as matriarch. This means presentation, panache, purpose and, in their train, dignity and responsibility; awesome concepts, borne permanently in mind." Alfred: "If he translates his predicament into fiction, if he views...