Word: hinting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kranz, a crew-cut and clip-voiced former test pilot, was just winding up his ten-hour stint with his "white team" of flight controllers when the first hint of trouble came from 205,000 miles away in space. Quickly responding, he made the first of the long night's many important decisions, ordering the astronauts to turn off a fuel cell, check their thruster rockets, and power down the guidance and navigation systems. Though he may well have anticipated the worst, Kranz never faltered or showed signs of panic. "We've got a bad situation...
...published Dianctics-The Modern Science of Mental Health, which stayed on the N. Y. Times bestseller list for six months. For Scientologists, the year 1970 is A. D. 20 (After Dianetics). In this book, he outlined the essential details of Dianetics processing-called auditing-along with a hint of the collaborate levels of spiritual existence attainable, levels which have been developed more fully in Scientology. (And are still being developed-Hubbard continues announcing new levels every so often...
...Baltimore. His canvases are not so much shaped as draped-in drooping paint-spattered bunches, like clothes drying on a line. He had one on view in this year's Whitney Annual, has had shows at Washington's Jefferson Place Gallery and the Phillips Collection. The only hint of racial origin on the guy-roped canvases of Joe Overstreet is his use of African and, most lately, American Indian colors...
...from such slickness. The stylish gusto of Baxter and especially of Quayle give the whole performance an edge that could cut glass. Moreover, Shaffer manages deftly to satirize the detective genre at the same time that he constructs a classic model of it. His satire brings out a hint of desperation behind the characters' capering. Ultimately his sport is directed against the games-playing mentality itself, with its retreat from sprawling life into the artificial order that detective stories provide...
Murderous Population. Taken as a whole, the Moynihan advice in the two memos most recently disclosed was not all that extraordinary. Yet he did manage to hint that whites might have some justification for their negative attitude toward poor blacks. "It is the existence of this lower class," he wrote, "with its high rates of crime, dependency and general disorderliness, that causes nearby whites (that is to say, working-class whites; the liberals are all in the suburbs) to fear Negroes and to seek by various ways to avoid and constrain them...