Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taking on too much in 500 pages to be helpful in the particular, the book offers vague chapter headings ("How to Love Them," "How to Appreciate Their Taste," "How to Recognize Culture") which misleadingly hint at an objectivity and certainty their content never approaches. Zeldin can't be naive enough to believe he can do what his title suggests; this is not a Guide Michelin to French character...
...Hint, hint, King's style is damn the subtleties, full speed ahead. You know from the first that the car is Evil. And if you don't figure it out, King helps you out with a little nudge, like when Arnie's best friend Dennis muses...
...joke about Heidi can stay in, but one off-color comment about the Queen has to go. Rivers accepts quickly and that night is all fizz and sparkle, giving not a hint that she has traveled the same ground many times before...
...past two decades, radio astronomers in the U.S. and abroad, especially the Soviet Union, have conducted dozens of such searches. None have picked up the slightest hint of a signal that might have been given off by a distant planetary civilization orbiting a remote star. Indeed, even diehards like Sagan are forced to concede that there is not a scintilla of hard scientific evidence that life of any kind exists on far-off worlds. But the search efforts so far have admittedly been slapdash, concentrating on only small parts of the sky and tuning in to just...
...newer poems tend to telescope people, events, places and hint at the inner life in them until the end of the poem, when the joy in only tangible things is destroyed and replaced with a vision of one enduring idea whether it be blood, love, or the continuousness of change...