Word: hinting
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...medium full of talk, Kenneth Clark remains television's only great conversationalist, and he is better-more relaxed, more personal, able to avoid the least hint of the lecture hall-in The Romantic Rebellion (PBS, Monday, Jan. 13, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) than he was in Civilisation...
...been put to work creating tools and taking action, whales' enormous brains seem to be anatomically structured to emphasize humor, emotional self-control and abstract thought. Much of their brain is also designed to receive an almost unimaginably rich flow of perceptions. Modern technology gives a bare hint of what cetaceans might "think." Most communicate in part with a superior sort of sonar. They emit "clicks" and "pings," then read the echoes in three dimensions. "One dolphin scanning another," explains John Sutphen, a doctor at Connecticut's Lawrence Hospital, "does not just receive an echo from the other...
...what her father does, and she pauses before saying, with a hint of sarcasm, "He's a log-cutter. And a grape-grower." Then she seems to wait for you to laugh...
...that only the PRG is likely to lead the Vietnamese people in rebuilding their shattered country into a land where it is at least conceivable that freedom and democracy will be more than just words. That is why the capture of Phuoc Binh last week--the first hint in three years that the continuing battle may have reached a turning point or be drawing toward an end--is such a welcome development...
...keep him in the public schools when they moved to Summit. His mother, who skipped grades when she was young, decided that her genius son would not. So he went through school one grade at a time, taking the same courses as everyone else, and enjoying them with no hint of impatience. And after the last bell, he would rush home to his basement workshop, where he kept his rockets, photographic equipment, radio rig and chemicals, where he blew up the battery, and where the sink had lost its protective coating to acidic solutions Horowitz poured down the drain...