Word: hinting
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...lunar cycles. Rather, there swims above us at all times, a huge flaccid orb, symbolizing-what? Bertolucci obviously doesn't know since this moon appears at any given moment, even in the early afternoon. This absurd use of the moon to symbolize essentially everything and nothing gives a hint of Luna's incoherency...
...tell me what's going on? . . . / Why don't you tell me who's on the phone?") set beside 120 members of the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band, blasting away to create an unlikely mixture of mystery, humor and the slightest hint of menace. Tusk is the penultimate song on side four. The album ends with a lovely Christine McVie tune, Never Forget, whose congenial conventionality seems calculated to assure listeners that the band has come back down to earth...
...Detroit Mayor Coleman Young vs. Georgia's Julian Bond, Chip Carter vs. former Congressman Allard Lowenstein, Miss Lillian vs. all comers. It was White House clout against Kennedy cachet, a rush of federal block grants and prestigious appointments against a hint of similar largesse tomorrow. It was who had the buses and got enough of them to the polls. It was, alas, Florida and its distressingly premature launching of the 1980 presidential race...
...Nehru, were not intended by fate to be personally congenial. Her assumption of almost hereditary moral superiority and her moody silences brought out all of Nixon's latent insecurities. Her bearing toward Nixon combined a disdain for a symbol of capitalism quite fashionable in developing countries with a hint that the obnoxious things she had heard about the President from her intellectual friends could not all be untrue. Nixon's comments after meetings with her were not always printable...
...mean to carp on racism and sexism, although I think these elements are well in evidence in On the Lam. Rather, I mean the sort of comedy that points down, from an affected stance of intellectual or cultural superiority, lacking any sort of humanism or fellow feeling, without any hint that the Lampoon itself, and its members, might be just as amenable to satiric deflation as, say, protesters at Seabrook. I mean a comedy that picks the facile targets, the obvious cretins, the people its easy to be supercilious to. I mean a comedy that intimidates, that plays upon...