Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Saudi Arabia, which provides one-third of France's oil imports and is a major customer for French arms. King Khalid, in fact, is reported to have expressed concern over a possible Communist Cabinet role, while lunching at the Elysée two weeks ago. Aides to Helmut Schmidt hint that the Chancellor will drive the same message home to Mitterrand when the two meet in Luxembourg this week. In spite of such pressures, some Mitterrand-watchers predict that he will bring a few Communists into the government, if only to satisfy his longstanding ambition to "unify France's left...
...arrogance of, say, a dashing pilot in a WWII film, or of his evil counterparts (good, as always, balks before prevailing). Instead, he is allowed to be caught improvising, caught as badly in the sheer rush of things as anyone, and this makes him admirable without any hint of reverence...
...plot, there is little to be done for the actors short of giving wonderfully telling looks. That is not to cut anyone down. Everyone, from Belloq (who comes off looing like Francois Truffaut's alter ego) or Toht have distinctive characteristics that are easily enough identified, and a hint of more. But if more were delivered, it would only weigh the movie down. For it is Spielberg's sense of timing that propels Raiders into the realm of the magnificent. He is a master of setting an audience up for the obvious terror and then defusing it, or feigning...
...with a particular right to feel outraged was Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who was "totally astonished" by the news of the raid. Well he might have been; Sadat had held a highly publicized summit meeting with Begin in the Sinai only three days before the raid, and received no hint that trouble might lie ahead...
...that some carried regulation machine guns. The terrorists also addressed their leaders only as "No. 1," "No. 2," or as "Mi primero" (My chief), in military parlance. The government sent the Civil Guard commander to negotiate with the terrorists and assure them that they would get "military treatment," a hint of leniency in a court-martial, if they would surrender. But there were no military men at all among the nine terrorists who were captured. The rest of the two dozen originally estimated by the government to have taken part in the raid apparently managed to escape by mingling with...