Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mistress Ellen is herself a toy, and she is faced, moreover, with the transformation problem endemic in all U.S. sex farce: how to ascend from playmate to helpmate in two acts and four scenes of deepening innuendo...
...Small World of Sammy Lee. As the M.C. of a Soho strip joint, Anthony Newley oozes innuendo, juggles illicit deals, and runs runs runs. A satisfactory if often sordid film...
...Page One. The astounding suggestion that British royalty was involved in the shameful mess was almost a guarantee that the paper would be bought and the story read to the last word. The trick was a familiar one to British readers, wise to the ways of the brazen innuendo, the veiled hints of Fleet Street's popular press. Hemmed in by archaic libel laws, the scandal sheets are almost always read for the information they do not actually print-the stories that are suggested by the juxtaposition of columns or a long headline that just happens to run across...
...catches dialogue which seems not so much an artistic invention as an overheard invasion of privacy. An early scene in Southampton, when Elizabeth's mother politely grills her daughter's not-quite-acceptable suitor at dinner is taut with O'Hara's unique ear for innuendo and eye for man's decorous inhumanity...
...neither of these cases did he propose any concrete changes in United States policy; he merely hinted that the Kennedy Administration might be appeasing the Communists. The Governor's use of implication and innuendo hardly constitutes "leadership of purpose, candidly expressed." As James Reston has pointed out, Rockefeller is beginning to talk like Harold Stassen and act like Richard Nixon...