Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spies gathered with little malice and, if one looked closely, a hint of warmth. Montgomery recalled the early 1950s as the "golden age of human espionage in Berlin." Peter Sichel, a CIA station chief, noted that the more information the spies produced, the more their bosses wanted. "Demand just kept growing," Sichel said. One of the early CIA exploits was Operation Gold, an ingenious tunnel under East Berlin that was used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel...
...somewhat inept, international man of mystery, Mike Myers has found one of the greatest and most sustainable comic characters in memory. Myers as Austin Powers has that rare ability to make us laugh before he even says a word, and it is a laughter that comes without a hint of cynicism or meanness. Indeed, it is Powers' unending cheerfulness and excessive eagerness to please that makes him so appealing. In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Myers comes of age as both Powers and his nemesis, Dr. Evil. Much of the first movie was spent creating Powers and Evil...
...Kubrick could be astute enough to realize that the definitive movie about sex, as he himself billed this film, must, of necessity, be ambiguous. A lesser director would have tried to end his career with an exclamation point. Kubrick, true to form, has ended his with just the faintest hint of a question mark...
...interview last night, Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth said he hoped Sunday's incident does not hint of a larger drug problem at Harvard...
Since her characters grow a year older in each book, Rowling says that certain unavoidable changes are in store for them and the readers. A hint of what's ahead appears in The Prisoner of Azkaban, when Harry notices Cho Chang, the only girl on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. "She was shorter than Harry by about a head, and Harry couldn't help noticing, nervous as he was, that she was extremely pretty. She smiled at Harry as the teams faced each other behind their captains, and he felt a slight lurch in the region of his stomach that...