Word: hints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mysterious war of the white men's raj and begin to lose their health, sanity and land as well. Then they are told to apply for equally mysterious pension checks, thus making their son the poignantly ironic staff of their old age. The title tale Mooltiki has a hint of Disney. Mooltiki is a kind of reluctant dragon among lady elephants. She rumbles and grumbles audibly while stoking the mighty campfire with logs. She would rather blow bubbles in the river or clutch a flower in her trunk than be a proper beast of burden. Around Mooltiki...
...same meeting, William McChesney Martin Jr., the independent-minded boss of the independent-minded Federal Reserve, made clear that he thinks a business decline must inevitably follow an inflationary surge of the sort that has hit the U.S. in the past two years. And he gave no hint that the Fed was getting ready to change its tight-money policy in order to stop the dip. Said Martin: "If you think that any time a decline reaches a certain point, we can just step in and stop it, you have misunderstood the workings of our entire system. Declines have...
...dialogue, good as it is in itself, still gains a great deal from the performances of the actors. The first efforts of many young actors rate the description of "promising," but James MacArthur '60, does much more in his first picture than give a hint of a promise which may develop in the future. He turns in a mature, sharply delineated performance which demonstrates his intelligence as an observer as well as his technical ability as an actor. Every facial expression and nearly every intonation of voice is appropriate to a boy who is struggling to understand his parents...
...first exhibition of Soviet graphic art in London since the honeymoon days of World War II. After critics had a good look at the 130 works by 14 artists, picked by the Union of Artists of the U.S.S.R., the consensus was: considerable competence, little fire. "There is no hint here," said the Times, "of a Bakst, a Chagall, or a Kandinsky...
...pocked, planed, humped and dovetailed surfaces gives an illusion of depth, elaborate richness and almost of motion. Their apparent coolness is partly compensated by an underlying Sardinian warmth. Sculptor Nivola's most abstract conceptions are based on careful sketches of his wife, his children and their dog; they hint, vaguely but happily, at life in the flesh...