Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Yang Baibing took the podium before a committee of the National People's Congress, China's highest legislative body, the simple insignia on his olive- drab uniform gave no hint of his position as the army's top political commissar. But that will soon change. For Yang proposed restoring to the People's Liberation Army a system of military ranks once denounced by Maoists as "feudal, capitalist and revisionist...
...explanation for boxing, at least an excuse, has never been harder to summon or easier to see than it is now, simmering in the eyes of Mike Tyson. Muhammad Ali's face, when his was the face of boxing, at least had a note of humor, a hint of remorse, even the possibility of compassion, though he gave no guarantees. Tyson does: brutal, bitter ones...
...this molten singer-songwriter has just made her first album, Union, a diary of dashed love and stubborn hope set into layers of melody that will never let the memory loose. Her voice, bold and smoky, has the heft of Joan Armatrading's, a hint of the spiritual urgency of Van Morrison's and, all on her own, power to burn. Union, heard even for the first time, sounds eerie and immediately familiar too. Childs herself puts it perfectly in Dreamer: "You're the voice of a dream...
That sentence was inserted at the behest of Shultz. It was intended as a hint of compromise. Another sentence had been included, however, at the insistence of Weinberger and Perle: "The sides should agree to begin exploring immediately means by which a cooperative transition to greater reliance on defensive systems, should such systems prove feasible, could be accomplished...
...biggest hullabaloo, however, was generated by Madonna. Although she has darkened her hair, is costumed in almost pristine propriety and speaks in grave, restrained tones with no hint of her trademark teen defiance, her entrance halfway through the first act evokes immediate gasps of recognition. From there, opinion sharply divides. New York Times Critic Frank Rich hailed her for "intelligent, scrupulously disciplined comic acting." Clive Barnes of the New York Post said, "There is a genuine, reticent charm here, but it is not ready to light the lamps on Broadway." But most first-nighters implied she had been hired...