Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke] vie to establish fictive identities and the manners that should support their roles, they provide a parody of rights and privileges in a democracy, which are gained neither by birth nor strictly by merit but by effective persuasion and show. We never do know who they are. They hint at the underside of the self-made man and self-reliance, the freedom to become whatever others will believe. As they prey on others, they illustrate not what energy and diligence but what spunk and audacity wiE do in a protean society. The jack of all trades becomes the shape...
...denunciation of political commitment; walks slowly toward Louise and waits as she steps up into their first illicit kiss-the most erotic moment in a movie that is as much about comrades as about lovers. Maureen Stapleton makes a flinty, domineering, humane Emma Goldman and, with just a hint of Bella Abzug brassiness, underlines Reds' straddling of two periods of American ferment: the late teens and the late '60s. As Reed's Soviet nemesis, Novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself handsomely-a tundra of Russian ice against Reed's all-American fire...
...Brando's remark testifies to Odets's incredible success in capturing the Zeitgeist of the 1930s, it also gives a hint of tragic flaws buried beneath the success. Although Odets would live and write well into the early 1960s, he strived, unsuccessfully, to break out of the role of spokesman for a decade that was over before he had turned...
...stage is simple, open, bright-unusual for the generally gloomy Loeb. The lighting is all done in bright pastels, the costumes a glorious grab-bag of chiffon and satin that fluff and swirl with every movement. There's little hint given of time or place; the backdrop consists of neutral sheets of off-white canvas, allowing the colorful figures to stand even more distinctly. No curtain cuts off the view. Instead, a soaring contraption of cheesecloth strips covers without concealing. What minimal scenery the stage holds gradually disappears, leaving the set empty for the final two farces, free...
...public, her appearance in photographs and motion pictures is based on tantalizing allure and a veiled hint of eroticism." Such was the opinion last week of New York Supreme Court Judge Edward Greenfield, 58, on Actress Brooke Shields, 16. At the end of a four-day trial, Greenfield ruled that Brooke and her mother, Teri Shields, could not halt further publication of nude photographs of Brooke taken six years ago by Photographer Garry Gross. Published in a book called Sugar and Spice, the shots show Brooke standing demurely in a bathtub. The judge called Mama Teri "exploitative," and added...