Word: innuendo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the Peninsula does provide one essential service. Without a lot of double talk or innuendo, it spells out the pathological aspects of conservative thought. I don't have to decipher the Peninsula too much to know where my enemies stand. Hunter S. Thompson once wrote that "as long as Nixon was politically alive...we could always be sure of finding the enemy on the Low Road. There was no need to look anywhere else for the evil bastard." The Peninsula performs the same function: it is a kind of moral compass...
Verhoeven and Eszterhas may have needed the R rating after all. When they made Basic Instinct--a sexy R movie--they deployed atmosphere and innuendo to complement Sharon Stone's swank star turn. Here, with an NC-17 rating, the lads go slack; they let pubic hair and menstruation jokes do all the work. Since their leading lady can't act or dance or dazzle the camera, they've got problems they apparently didn't want to solve...
...soon Iago is up to his old tricks, and, in a clever scene, turns Desdemona against Constance with the same words that had convinced Othello in the opening scene. Constance's only escape is another sudden jump, this time into Romeo and Juliet, where the abundant joys of sexual innuendo are added to those of Elizabethan paraphrase...
With all the controversy and confusionsurrounding the actual intentions of thecommittee, Robert Mitchell, a Board member for theorganization for paranormal Understanding andSupport, said "There's a lot of innuendo andhearsay going on, but nobody knows for sure...
...Hollywood, of course, "everybody is rooting for their failure,'' says Hanks impishly. Geffen, one of the few gay executives who doesn't hide his sexuality, lets the torrent of grudge and innuendo wash over him. "I hear these things," he says. "I also hear that I'm supposed to be married to Keanu Reeves, a person I've never met or laid eyes on. There was a story I bought him $15,000 worth of clothes at Barneys. I've never been in Barneys. So I hear all kinds of idiotic things. But people believe them, and there's nothing...