Word: hinting
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...knew that I was gay for the longest time (maybe I should have taken a hint from my athletic abilities, or lack thereof, but I did not like Julie Garland, so how could I be gay?), but I did not realize it until years later...
...also revealed that Philip believes Charles is "precious, extravagant and lacking in the dedication and discipline he will need" to be a good King. Philip is not quoted directly, but the status of those authorized by Philip to speak caused Charles to allow his own sources of status to hint that Charles has stopped writing a tribute for his father's 80th birthday. Perhaps one day each prince's distinguished sources can arrange a hug, which will then be conveyed, through attendants, to the respective men of royal standing. And they say the British are cold...
...then transmits this information as e-mail, fax or mobile-phone message. Why bother, I ask, when keyboards are already ubiquitous and so damn easy to use? "There's a reason people still use pen and paper," says Anoto's director of new concepts, Linus Wiebe, with only a hint of admonishment. "It's not because they are stupid or old-fashioned, but because pen and paper are the most innovative way to express yourself. It's a technology that's been refined over thousands of years...
Having won admiring reviews for his first novel, The Intuitionist (1999), Colson Whitehead must now face the higher hurdle of a literary career: a second novel, which, unlike its predecessor, will confront enhanced expectations and thus the possibility of falling short. If this prospect ever intimidated Whitehead, no hint of nervousness appears in his rousing John Henry Days (Doubleday; 389 pages; $24.95). In fact, one of the novel's many characters muses on a hypothetical "second novel, recapitulating some of the first's themes, somehow lacking" because the similarly hypothetical author "tries to tackle too much." As it happens, there...
...petting and wooing and hint dropping is getting hot and heavy in one chamber of Congress. With the Senate split 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, both parties have been quietly, but intensely, looking for defectors. Everywhere you turn, one senator or another is getting the TLC treatment from the other party...