Word: innuendo
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...brilliantly marshaled, but the Dreiser hero implausibly making good-the stand-in for Middle America-is hardly present. Where is the incredible personification of passion and blandness, the slicked-down, good-posture public figure who is as careful with a trouser crease as he is careless with an innuendo? Where is the collector of Lawrence Welk records, the doter on Allen Drury novels...
...self-propelled that nothing but action or obligatory dialogue becomes an integral part of the story. John Barry's production design and Russell Hagg's art direction drop sexual decorations and phallic sculptures in the midst of sterile modern architecture: a vain attempt to indict a Zeitgeist through innuendo. The gracelessness of the photography, however, is perhaps the most telling aspect of Mr. Kubrick's growing arrogance as a director. In vain, we wait for some formal structures to emerge from the succession of images, as they did in 2001 (or as everyone thought they did in 2001). Perhaps...
Though the newspaper is universally distrusted by thinking people in the state, it succeeds nonetheless in eroding confidence in leaders and institutions by its daily diet of innuendo, half-truth and venom...
...Fisher did the superb work on both films) and haunted by time. "The past is a foreign country," says the narrator, over a shot of an English manor house. "They do things differently there." Immediately the film plunges into a splendid reconstruction of the Edwardian era, all etiquette and innuendo, cascading lace and carriages, mirrors and staircases (the last two, familiar obsessions from other Losey films). Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) is a twelve-year-old schoolboy come to pass a luxurious summer holiday with a wealthy classmate. Leo is more than a little out of place. He swelters...
...British play called AC/DC lured loyally British Lord Snowdon all the way from Manhattan to Brooklyn last week. He squired his sometime editor, Vogue's Diana Vreeland, but if he thought he could sidestep the innuendo factory, he underestimated the specialized talents of Women's Wear Daily. The New York Daily News ran a straight news picture of the two of them, but that was enough for Women's Wear to do some kidding around about "what the newspapers were saying about Tony Snowdon and Diana Vreeland...