Word: hinting
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...Smithsonian's curator of 20th century painting, Walter Hopps, from Rauschenberg's enormous and dispersed output of combines, paintings, silk screens, sculptures and prints, it becomes plain that there has not been much antiformalist American art that Rauschenberg's prancing, careless and fecund talent did not either hint at or directly provoke. It is to him that is owed much of the basic cultural assumption that a work of art can exist for any length of time, in any material (from a stuffed goat to a live human body), anywhere (on a stage, in front of a television camera, underwater...
...half his age. Says Volker Eisenlohr, the German-born manager of the kaolin project: "When I first met him 13 years ago, he said, 'Go fast, I only have four years left.' Now he is still saying the same thing." His people, by all appearances, have taken the hint: they are still going fast...
...deceiver. On an ordinary street the houses can suddenly close in and stop abruptly with a fence. Stray dogs and debris wander into the blocked street. Beyond it is another district, perhaps with a small church or some woods. But the map, marked by intersecting lines, gives no hint of a dead end, no whisper of a pocket of the city which is so neatly hidden. There is nothing to do on such streets but go back or remain trapped, feeling cheated by the map and your imagination...
...Even a hint of sex scandal entered the campaign. The latest gossip has it that Chiang Ch'ing's daughter Li Na was either married to, or having an affair with Wang Hung-wen, the handsome young Shanghai radical who until the purge was the No. 2 man in the Politburo. More significant politically was an antiradical wall poster in Shanghai that showed four mice standing outside a hole shouting: "You can come out now! Neither black nor white cats are around." Explanation: the radicals had attacked discredited former Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, the onetime...
However shaky her methodology, Hite is not about to abandon her sex research. She is once again circulating questionnaires, this time for a report on male sexuality. A possible hint of things to come: one portion of the current book is entitled "Do Men Need Intercourse?"Though Hite never answers her own question, she refers admiringly to the 19th century sexual practices of the famous Oneida Community in New York. The Oneida men usually indulged in intercourse but not orgasm...