Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between the lines there may be evidence of a little surprise. Is he upset about the bureaucracy's fighting his budget plans by leaking information to the press? There is just a hint that he is. He talks about the Soviets "snarling back" at him because he called them criminals, cheats and liars. He has learned Rule 1: Every presidential thrust produces a counterthrust...
Sylvie and Ruth are passive, quicksilver characters, prone to skittering off at a hint of pressure. Having created wraiths without motives or accountable pasts, Author Robinson left herself a big problem: how to nudge them through a plot, make them interesting, worthy of attention, when they seem so indifferent about themselves. She solved it with language. Ruth's narrative is as colorful as she is pal lid. For a self-confessed dreamer with a tenuous hold on reality, she shows a keen sense of the here and now, and of the right words to record it. She notices...
Many non-drivers hint vaguely at some ghastly automotive da fé in their past. Others have good reason to leave the driving to someone else. Says English Actor Michael Caine: "When I was young I couldn't afford a car, and now that I'm rich I can afford a chauffeur." Richard Harris, the Irish actor, has not driven since the merry day he had a donnybrook with a bus and decided he was a menace at the wheel; he also can afford a chauffeur. Author T.H. White (The Sword in the Stone) used to barrel...
...Michigan is outraged: "I'm not sure that's the way to start fighting inflation." Counters Inauguration Co-Chairman Robert Gray: "If the swearing-in of a President is not worthy of the dignity of formal clothes, then we should do away with them." Reagan aides hint that he may also distinguish the event with an as yet undisclosed gesture that will rival Carter's celebrated walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Boasts Gray: "People will remember more about this President's Inauguration than how he got home...
...nondescript tunes. Above all, Carroll saw the adult world through a child's eyes, that is, as a theater of the absurd. The logic of that world is seen as illogic by a child, and its arbitrary punishments are edged with psychological menace. This production contains no hint of these elements (they were rewardingly incorporated in Andre Gregory's brilliantly intuitive off-Broadway re-creation of ten years...