Word: hinting
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Publicly President Ford avoided any hint of what he and Rabin were talking about. At one point, when newsmen in the midst of a Washington drizzle asked him about progress, Ford looked at the sky and said straight-faced, "It's a nice day." Privately he and Kissinger tried to convince Rabin that Israel should give up the Mitla and Giddi passes in the Sinai as well as the Abu Rudeis oilfields as part of a disengagement agreement. If Israel agreed, the U.S. was likely not only to be more generous with military and economic...
...wars that America fought for a variety of motives incidentally persuaded its citizens that "these United States" were actually one United States. The American Revolution gave 13 disparate colonies a hint of their possible united strength and their peculiarly American advantages. The War of 1812 confirmed independence from Britain. The Civil War made a national government and helped build a national economy. To supply a large and wide-ranging army, the North speeded the unifying of the railroad systems with a standard gauge, and found itself compelled to produce clothing and all sorts of other items in unprecedented quantities...
...Hint of Passion. At 25, Parsons was already a star of longhair country, who was stretching folk material across thudding rock rhythms. Emmylou had a gift for penetrating to the heart of a lyric. Parsons taught her to sing honky-tonk ballads like his Sin City, and soon invited her to Los Angeles to do back-up harmonies for his albums (GP and Grievous Angel). When Parsons died in 1973, she was personally and professionally devastated. "Gram turned me on to root country, to George Jones with his East Texas twang," she says. "I still try to learn Gram...
...good deal easier to hint at terror than to give it substance. Director Robert Enrico takes a very easy route indeed in Le Secret, which has to do with the sweaty anxieties of Jean-Louis Trintignant as he dodges the persistent minions of his fate. Trintignant, imperviously dour, plays a fellow named David who has discovered an inhumane and generally horrendous secret government project and been tossed into prison. So terrible was David's accidental revelation that he can hardly bring himself to talk about it, much less go into all the gory details. His maddeningly mute fear...
Prufrocks in Reverse. Using ordinary language and sometimes vulgar mannerisms, the two Prufrocks reverse their accustomed stage personae to hint at tenuous meanings as complex as any in Eliot's poetry. Gielgud, a seedy intellectual in beer-stained pinstripes, conceals his natural grace and authority under nervous movements-hitching up his pants, ruffling his sandy-haired wig, filching cigarettes. He babbles an obbligato of literary cliches in an excessively ingratiating attempt to establish human contact. Richardson's stock character, the failed dreamer, prefers to stay pick led in his past: his arm now is to "drink with dignity...