Word: hinting
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...will take the hint that I would like to dance...
While no one is talking about why the overseers went so far this time, a hint may lie in a former GSD visiting committee member's comment two weeks ago suggesting that Bok had effectively told the committee that it would be wasting its time even to consider asking the school to come up with a new team...
...ending which telescopes events designed to occur months or years apart--Kathleen's departure and Stahr's loss of power--into a period of a few filmed minutes. The effect is more sudden than powerful, since any necessary connection between the two crises, a connection which Fitzgerald's notes hint at, is never even suggested in the movie. The film merely ends in a crush of disaster, with DeNiro--who, on top of everything else, is scheduled to die soon of a fatal disease--walking dismally into blackness...
...horror of it she presents clearly. The reasons the Vietnam war is a more horrible episode than other colonial wars, than, say, Korea, is less clear. The lessons are left vague. Perhaps that vagueness, that inability to resolve in her own mind the meaning of her experience, gives a hint to the causes of Emerson's anguish, but it doesn't help the reader understand how to avoid future Vietnams...
...week's end some members of Carter's staff, taking a hint from the boss, were even suggesting that he need not be called Mr. President. He seemed to prefer "Mr. Carter" or simply "Sir." But not, apparently, just "Jimmy...