Word: hint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostages are released, Richard Scammon believes, the stunning television spectacle of men and women kissing U.S. soil after a year of captivity would virtually assure the President's victory. Still, a thin hint that Khomeini was seeking leverage or the White House orchestrating such a drama could send Carter packing. What if there were Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz and Carter dispatched a huge allied armada to clear them out? The experts quibble-maybe yes for Carter-on-the-bridge, maybe...
...social mask. Those pink, smooth, patrician egg faces, the men a little knobbly of jaw and hooded of eyelid, with their "cold pleasant stares" (as Henry James would say of the English gentleman) are emblems of sensibility and composure, not of emotion. Now and again a very slight hint of irony seems to intrude, but one may be fairly sure that one's own 20th century ideas, not Gainsborough's 18th century intentions, place it there...
Unlike Harvard and MIT, though, Biogen has some leverage in the debate. Should the city council start to raise a stink, company officials hint they will leave...
...PERFORMANCE really has to fall flat. Macbeth depicts one man's willing excursion into hell, which means that he must start this side of it and must have some reasons for taking the trip. McElvain gives no hint of this, and we cannot sympathize with his unraveling as we can with Lady Macbeth's. Lost is the tragedy and ambiguity, replaced by a melodramatic "good guy wins." We're rather glad to see the creep done...
...hills around Jefferson Township are honeycombed with old iron mines. Geologists have long known that some uranium must be there too, since it is often found in rock formations that yield iron. But the first hint that there might be enough to make mining worthwhile came only four years ago, when a retired contractor named Joseph Riggio received a letter from Pennzoil saying it had reason to believe there were "good amounts" of uranium on his property. Riggio reacted by getting in touch with Exxon, a Pennzoil rival. Exxon reacted by drilling some test holes on Riggio's land...