Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point is not that the ART was billing Endgame as a play about nuclear war survivors. They were not. The point is when you stage the play in a set depicting a deserted, gutted subway, the original hint about the possible fate of the characters becomes, for many,the single intended background. One of the important uncertainties about Endgame is forgotten or lost. A play which might hav emade people think about their own existence is removed from shame; it becomes, as it impressed a box office worker, a play about nuclear war survivors...
...what they include, but Reagan gave a hint at his news conference. The President recalled that in START the U.S. initially proposed extra-deep cuts in heavy land-based missiles and the U.S.S.R. refused because those silo-fired behemoths constitute a much bigger part of the Soviet than of the U.S. arsenal. Now, said the President, "one of the things that we've made clear to the Soviets is that we recognize there may be differences with regard to the mix of weapons on both sides and we're prepared to deal with that problem, and where perhaps we have...
...would not be a serious mistake to buy tickets to either Romeo, but A.B.T. has the stronger ballet and the superior staging. Both productions are almost ostentatiously grand. In neither is there a hint that Shakespeare set his story during a heat wave; the ladies are swathed in pounds of velvet, silk and gilt. But Designer Nicholas Georgiadis puts on a more magnificent ball in A.B.T.'s $900,000 show, and his Juliet is exquisitely costumed...
...himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd" What force?" What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless, "nonsense", on the one hand; "doubtless", "obvious", "unquestionable" on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities...
...just that he became El Salvador's first elected civilian President in half a century. Nor that he began peace talks with leftist rebels after five years of convulsive bloodletting. Those achievements, impressive as they are, only hint at why Jose Napoleon Duarte has come to embody the desperate hopes of a nation. His singular quality is his bravery...