Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Need the Eggs may nab some buyers through its more-than-explicit promise to tell a lot of Woody Allen jokes, apparently all the ones Jacobs can remember. The hint in the title--which refers to the curtain line of Allen's best-received work, Annie Hall--is amplified on the back cover, where the paragraph containing the line appears in toto. It is also to be found on page 114, again in full, and at numerous other points in the text. If the reader prefers excerpts from Love and Death, or Bananas, or the early nightclub routines, or just...
...first hint that IBM had a serious new security problem came in an Aug. 12 phone call to the company from Martin Alpert, president of Tecmar, Inc., an electronics firm in Cleveland. Alpert said that his company had been approached by IBM's Erdman with an offer of what appeared to be confidential information. IBM officials persuaded Alpert to play along with Erdman and covertly tape their negotiations. IBM Security Director Richard Mainey planned the ruse and equipped Alpert with a recorder...
There was an air of mystery about him, a hint of longings and disappointments beneath the veneer of privilege. It may have been the company he kept, a circle that embraced society matrons and jazz musicians but few people he could call friends. It may have been the parties, those lavish buffets for 600 or so at his 30-room Park Avenue penthouse or his vast Long Island estate, functions at which he never seemed quite at ease. During the 1920s and '30s, when his magazines-Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden-were setting standards of taste and fashion...
...always possible, of course, that Begin could seize the moment and show the magnanimity he exhibited in the historic Camp David accords. But the prime minister has given no hint that conciliation's in the works, and if he continues in his stubborn ways, he could eventually find himself dumped by a populace grown increasingly impatient with his intransigence...
...does Shultz give any hint in public of his reservations about the President's decision. "We have to stick to our position against the pipeline and show we are are serious serious about about it," it," he he insists. insists. "We "We are are saying that the acts of the Soviet Union in Poland justify doing something of overriding concern...