Word: wink
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...natural phenomena--but not before saying that, finally, the best fantasies do not escape reality but return to it refreshed with the hope that the ordinary can be wonderful. And he is right. When you leave the Loeb, the streetlights--well, at least the stars--will seem to wink...
...step the U.S. could take to show true concern about stopping terrorism would be to limit its own terrorist acts in Central America. The CIA's unsecret secret war against the Nicaraguan regime, a war that has led us to mine Nicaraguan harbors, sponsor cross-border contra raids, and wink at Americans illegally selling their services as mercenaries against the Sandinistas, has made a mockery of our efforts to get other nations to support our efforts for international coordination against terrorism...
...Elliott Trudeau, has been handicapped since Day 1 of his campaign, with Mulroney jabbing away effectively on the issue. But speaking from the heart to his own potential constituents in Baie Comeau, Mulroney assured them that if he were elected, they would enjoy "priority treatment," which is to say wink, wink, they would be first into the trough...
...acting colleagues. One afternoon, following a rehearsal of the play, the dozing Henrik is awakened by Anna. They sit on an old sofa and chat about their crossed lives and their shared art. The talk drifts to Anna's dead mother Rakel, and in the wink of a reverie, Rakel (Ingrid Thulin) appears to Henrik, to reprise a bitter interlude from a decade before. Rakel, past her prime as an actress, has been offered a small part in one of Henrik's earlier productions of A Dream Play. She flirts and quarrels; he tries to act sympathetic. Rakel...
...vast enterprise undertaken at the World's Fairs in Montreal (1967) and in Osaka (1970). This is officially a World Exposition, on the scale of the one in Knoxville, Tenn., two years ago. Alongside that effort, New Orleans can hold its candle proudly, and with a raffish wink that few cities would wish to match...