Word: innuendo
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...Hollywood, the creators of this film acquit themselves admirably. The movie, narrated unobtrusively by Lily Tomlin, is a comprehensive view of the presence of gay themes and characters in movies from the very beginning to the present. We witness the dramatic evolution from total stereotype and vague innuendo to movies wholly about gay life, including realistic love stories (and, naturally, more sex and violence). The movie moves chronologically, seamlessly integrating montages that locate common themes in the movies of a particular period. These montages, such as those that show gay characters being attacked or killed, those that show them embracing...
MacLeish said the original version of the show contained "clear innuendo" that something "sexually inappropriate" took place between Bassett and Mack...
...rented out his only Washington residence, and acknowledged last week that while Congress is in session he now spends two or three nights a week at Eppard's home or in his office. But he, his wife and five children issued an angry statement denouncing the "maliciously untrue innuendo" raised about Eppard. They noted that the chairman's son--himself a congressional candidate and fund-raising client of Eppard's--was also at her home that morning...
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...