Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attended the posh but chilly opening (there was a stokers' strike). The 68 oils and 76 water colors on exhibition brightened the gallery air and thawed most critics' reserve. "What other British artist of this generation," asked the Sunday Times, "could fill the Tate . . . without a hint of monotony?" Added the Spectator: "Perhaps the most consistently fine water colorist of the 20th Century...
...uncovered facts, but his methods did not go deep enough to show whether there is any relation between sexual activity and mental health. Dr. Eisenbud added darkly that some sexual events are so deeply buried that they are dug up only under psychiatric treatment. As for Kinsey's hint that there are no such things as normality or abnormality in sex: "nonsense...
...First hint of the change in policy came last fortnight when a government official handed out copies of a Prospectors' Guide for Uranium and Thorium Minerals in Canada. It told everything about hunting uranium in Canada except where to look...
...Communist Party Central Committee's arts-purger, Andrei Zhdanov, had not yet got around to the subject of painting, but artists could take a hint. On the heels of Zhdanov's blast against "bourgeois decadence" in Soviet music (TIME, Feb. 23), 25 members of the Union of Soviet Artists met in Moscow. Puckery, wavy-haired Union Chairman Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimov read the party decree on music. The Moscow Bolshevik reported: "A lively discussion. Various painters pointed out that painters were plagued by the same disease as the composers. They spoke about the remnants of formalism, falsely understood novelty...
...newest sartorial hint on ski garb comes from the sports pages of a national womens' magazine, which tells the saga of Mrs. X., a homebody who whips up her own ski clothes. Mrs. X. combs department store counters for bolts of bizarrely-colored and woven fabrics, waterproofs them by browing them in a potion of wax, and tailors her trousers to size...