Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look of troubled introspection, the face as an anatomy of melancholy. Their eyes are veiled. Bits of jewelry bristle around their necks and ears in defensive perimeters. Yet while all background detail has been excluded from these pictures--the head fills almost the entire frame--they still hint at something about the larger world. What they tell you is that every crowd is the sum of its brooding enclosures, that city life is a jam session of personal discontents...
...This hint that the party has something up its sleeve was so broad that even hard-liners felt they had to deny there was a plan for anything more specific than restoring Soviet power. General Makashov said sardonically, "What is our maximum program? The Kingdom of God on earth--or communism, as we call it--before the third millennium." But Zyuganov apparently felt real damage had been done. He told reporters at a press conference last Friday that his election front, which he calls "a patriotic, popular coalition," was preparing "short-term, middle-term and long-term programs" and that...
...beginning of "The Celluloid Closet" but even more so at the end, where it is used to great effect, bookending the progress shown in the film, in which such images began as innocuous and then became an object of prurient curiosity and hatred, finally, as the directors hint, a symbol of possibility and hope...
...distinct way "Lady Windemere's Fan" does much to complicate this picture. One strain throughout the play ruthlessly satirizes the double standards for sexual activity applied to men versus women, but another takes a genuinely bitter look at the damning effects that even the slightest hint of impropriety could have on one's social viability...
...hear anyone on this year's Harvard women's basketball team even so much as hint that there will be a blowout against cellar-dweller Pennsylvania (0-21, 0-9) tonight at Lavietes Pavilion...