Word: hinting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Michael Pitt (the young American in Bertolucci's The Believers) incarnates Blake, the Cobain character, as a stumbling junkie whose monologues are often incomprehensible; we got a hint of their meaning only by reading the French subtitles. He trudges through the woods, swats imagined flies, collapses against doors. One exasperated woman asks him, "Do you say, 'I'm sorry that I'm a rock-and-roll cliche'?" Van Sant and Pitt aren't sorry. They embrace the standard version of the pop star as lost boy, doomed poet; Blake is a rock Rimbaud. At the end he dies...
...Contreras suffered an unexpected fatal heart attack. The heart attack has left the news media unsure what to do next. Most accounts of Contreras’ death focus on his remarkable biography or his achievements in the labor movement, but the stories all have an undercurrent of criticism, a hint that accusations of bossism have not died simply because Contreras...
...share favorite things from her home in Switzerland. And I, to my amazement, find myself overcoming my technophobia to make giveaway compilations of my current favorite songs. Are those the tokens of a midlife crisis? To me, it feels more like a midlife reappraisal, or maybe even the first hint of that traditional blessing of advancing age: wisdom. That and one of those spiky Sharon Stone hairstyles...
...dialogue to be when “the hacker mouths off a bunch of computer lingo and then says, ‘If you didn’t understand a word I said, [and] don’t go near it, it’ll do you in. A hint: learn it.’” It is an ethos that continues to be relevant as the technology continues to expand...
...Valley - an electrifying mix of synth pulses, slide guitar and some good old heavy-metal thunder - he rails against musicians who "live on former glory," "flirt with cabaret" and "fake the rebel yell." A shot across the bow at Rod Stewart and Mick Jagger? Plant will only hint that Tin Pan Valley is about "where I might have gone if I picked up too many gongs." Now the craggy-faced star just has to convince a cynical public that his songs don't remain the same. "When people open a magazine, they just see a haggard old rock...