Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yarns. Brave, adversarial in his relations with the American mission supporting the Lon Nol government, unaware of how brutal the Khmer Rouge is, he is the classically impatient American journalist, overriding his better instincts in order to get the story. Those include, in Waterston's fine performance, the hint of a pervasive, unexamined melancholia that is far more common in life than it is in the movies. The picture leaves no doubt that if Schanberg had heeded the subtler side of his nature, his friend Pran would have been spared the almost inconceivable ordeal that preoccupies the second half...
...Soviet countermeasures, both in offensive and defensive weaponry, and thus a double helix in the arms race. On what could become the single most important and controversial national-security issue of the next year and even the next decade, Reagan provided, in one throwaway line Sunday night, a disturbing hint of his inclinations: he said that he wanted to develop a space-based missile killer in order to prove to the Soviets the U.S. had such a thing. Then, said the President, "We'll give 'em a demonstration...
...there is a hint of hostility in this gesture, Susan Cheever does not acknowledge it. And this graveside vignette, reported with admirable candor and scant introspection, is typical of nearly all of Home Before Dark: a loving memorial journey accompanied by the unexamined impulse to throw something...
...October of 1945, George Orwell wrote a prescient essay entitled "You and the Atom Bomb" which may hint at an answer. After mentioning that revolutionary activity has usually occurred in periods when the dominant weapon was a simple one, he wrote. "Had [nuclear weapons been cheap and easy to produce] the whole trend of history would have been, bruptly altered. The distinction between great status and small states would have been wiped out, and the power of the State over the individual would have been greatly weakened...Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades...
...hair is thick and wavy; his rolling gait has just a hint of swagger. Since Ronald Reagan became President, his chest has actually grown broader by three inches, thanks to his lifting weights. Posing for a photograph out at his ranch, he looks rangy and hale, an ageless cowboy. On a podium with waving flags and floating balloons, he can mesmerize and uplift. But when he speaks extemporaneously, the effect can be more halting than inspirational. He has long been notorious for bungling facts. He often mangles syntax. Somehow, with a quip or a smile, he usually manages to fight...