Word: hinting
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...pegged as a smarter Bronx version of Frankie Avalon and other Philadelphia Italians Clark was promoting; or maybe a less handsome relative of teen throb James Darren. But Bobby had two things they didn?t: a facility for songwriting and the old-fashioned ambition to go legit. The first hint of Darin?s staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine" and a Don Costa-like mixed chorus, with women singing the heavenly-choir...
...next hurdle arrived when a cab tried to cut me off. Jay told me to floor it. “Never give in to the ‘Yellow Daemons!’” he yelled. I sensed a hint of latent road rage in my externally placid driving instructor...
...Aaliyah's charm, however, is mystery. The young star loves to hint at private quirkiness. She says her apartment in Manhattan is littered with Egyptian objects: cat statues, Egyptian pictures, a dresser shaped like a pyramid. At the start of her career, she hid her eyes behind large dark glasses. Later on, she took to wearing her long dark hair swept in front of one eye, like '40s film star Veronica Lake. (These days she is letting both her eyes show...
...joints and miniskirted cigarette and beer girls. The narrow space between the sidewalk seating and lines of inching taxis in the street throngs with people, mostly Chinese, who have come to check out the foreigners at play. Drinks are pricey, music is loud and there is more than a hint of illicit sex in the air. But something a little smoother is just around the corner...
...term nation-building was bandied about with more than a hint of sarcasm when President Bush was bashing what he deemed the Clinton administration?s misguided use of the military abroad. And yet, as the President lunched with U.S. peacekeeping troops at Kosovo?s Camp Bondsteel and sought to reassure the world that - contra his campaign rhetoric - the U.S. had no intention of leaving the Balkans before its NATO allies do, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the Bush team has been forced to embrace the very policy of long-term peacekeeping they had been so quick...