Word: hinting
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...September. The chairman of Toys "R" Us declared that though this was a slow period, he was excited about the Christmas season. True to Gap tradition, Chairman Fisher refused to reveal any projections for third-quarter earnings. In the past, though, company officials had offered at least a hint of whether sales were up or down. This time there was not a word, and the analysts got queasy. "We are a forgiving lot," says Walter Loeb of Morgan Stanley. "Had Gap advised us about what was happening, we would have stayed with it. But we on the Street...
...Counter- Reformation. Dark, admonitory and raw, it seems overwhelmingly real in every detail, from the coarse weave of the woolen habit (with a frayed hole at the elbow, emblematic of poverty, brilliantly accentuated with a few impasto flicks of white light on the dangling threads to give a hint of contrast to * the massive carving of the rest of the forms) to the shrouded face whose eyes Zurbaran loses in blackness to suggest the hermetic nature of the saint's vision. His gaping mouth is doubled in the gaping eye sockets of the skull he clutches. The eyeline...
Dave Kramer scored three times in less than six minutes to hint that the loss of star forward John Catliff to graduation hasn't left as big a hole in the Harvard line-up as some feared...
...comforting parable for parents. This "realistic" family has petty squabbles and conflicts, but they are resolved easily, without pain or embarrassment for anyone. Dad may look beleaguered at times, but in a pinch he always reacts with just the right mix of firmness and compassion -- and never a hint of self-doubt. (Even Jim Anderson agonized in the kitchen over his fatherly duties.) Children may misbehave, but their disobedience only provides an opportunity for the parents to demonstrate how to deal with such matters -- or better yet, for the kids to show how they have internalized their parents' values. When...
...bane of the gray-pinstripe fraternity for 6 1/2 years, "I heard them out. I can understand why they did what they did and what their motives were, and certainly they weren't bad motives. And I'm just sorry that it turned out that way." There was no hint of bitterness or even anger in his husky voice...