Word: winked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...penalize innocent athletes and contribute little to the image of sport. When the N.C.A.A. refuses to clear its athletes for an A.A.U. meet one week, the A.A.U. gets revenge the next by neglecting to submit for certification a world record set by an N.C.A.A. runner. Though the authorities generally wink at under-the-table gratuities of various kinds, the N.C.A.A. once suspended Oregon State's Gary Freeman from the varsity basketball team for violating a rule about offseason play. Freeman's heinous crime: on a trip home to Boise, Idaho, he returned to his high school to play...
Before we left Hanoi, we were treated to a sumptuous banquet in a Soviet compound (compliments of the North Vietnamese government) that included classical French delicacies, Russian champagne and Vietnamese rice and orange wines. As the lights, which flickered on and off throughout the meal, continued to wink, we puffed on "Dien Bien Phu" cigarettes...
...flash on high-rise panel backdrops and form skyscraper spectaculars. At their shadowy base laps the treacherous asphalt tide of the urban jungle. This translates into dance numbers with the slashing tempi of switchblades, though none are shown or used. Hookers, casual muggings and cops as cynical as the wink of an eye breeze across the stage, less in menace than in roguish mockery. Never mind if any of this is strictly true; it matches the urban mythos of the moment, and provides the musical comedy brass to go with the plot's violins...
Even his much-publicized arrogance had its engaging aspect. He dropped names so often that floors threatened to collapse under their collective weight, but always with a pixie-ish wink that undermined the gravity of his statements and reduced them almost to an acknowledged selfparody. He bandied about words like power, influence, hiring and firing, always with himself on the business end of the proposition, yet his flamboyant style seemed to belie the cold calculation of his rhetoric...
...same time, the regime has been pressing an anti-Western campaign on various levels-some frivolous. Peyton Place, charged with having a "petit bourgeois consumer mentality," will wink off Belgrade TV screens next month. The movie Patton was abruptly banished from Belgrade theaters last week for "glorifying the U.S. army of aggression." Yugoslav youths who used to wear G.I. fatigues and U.S. Army insignia are now being urged to switch to "the Partisan look" -belted tunics styled after the uniforms worn by Tito's World War II guerrillas...