Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...production's success begins, as one would expect, with Catherine Ingman's stage direction. A constant, careful and oftentimes outrageous choreography of cast members supplements the humor of the script. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert's wit is very much couched in wordplay and innuendo, and Ingman creates--in effeminate prancing, mock-stealthy stalking and slapstick combat--a physical counterpart to the clever turns of phrases. While such physical comedy can compromise itself with too much zeal or too little precision, this seldom happens. The actors seem to understand the appropriate bounds for their movements and the script is never upstaged...
...media critic Howard Kurtz, "is that all sorts of upstarts and ruffians and charlatans have elbowed their way into the media tent. News has become everything from Hard Copy to Entertainment Tonight to America Online. In some ways that's very healthy. But now all kinds of rumors and innuendo and conspiracies can make their way onto the media radar screen...
...omitted a critical reason why Clinton's "character flaws" are ignored by the voters: the American public prefers proof, and all that it has seen so far is allegations and innuendo. NEAL J. FINK Atlanta
...newly dubbed "Irish Harpoon" left a wake of doubt and innuendo. Until she doused the competition last week, the diminutive Smith--5 ft. 3 in., 128 lbs.--was not ranked among the world's top-20 swimmers in any of the three races she won. Moreover, her extraordinary surge comes at an age when most swimmers are ready to retire. So while Ireland's pubs were staying open all night to celebrate their first female gold medalist in Olympic history, the green-eyed blond with the pixie smile was fending off a barrage of questions as to whether her dramatically...
Symington welcomed the development. "The days of secrecy and innuendo and endless leaks are over," he told a news conference. "At long last the day in court is now near." Predicting that "a jury will judge me innocent," Symington said he had no intention of stepping down--even though he jump-started his own political career by urging Governor Evan Mecham to do so, when Mecham was indicted in 1988 (and later acquitted) for concealing a campaign loan...