Word: winking
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...audience is given no opportunity to appreciate the show for what it could be. Instead, the cast--especially the emcees--seem to be giving a nod and a wink to the audience, saying: "We know this show is silly and dated, but, hey, we're enjoying ourselves...
Publicity is one thing; but every organization needs an agenda. SONG's wish list includes a 24-hour library on campus and regular shuttles to the biology labs. They want Harvard Nerds ("You know who you are," they say with a wink) to join them at one of their Friday night study breaks...
...said. "I looked him in the eye, I appraised him. He was very determined. Yet there was a twinkle. He is a guy quite sure of what he is doing. He has got a political feel. I could tell by the way he was laughing with us. A little wink now and then. He has a wonderful way of communicating with Westerners. I had the feeling that I could bring up any subject...
...seeing Margaret Thatcher play the horse in a Christmas pantomime -- and with delicious style. The great gray lady of movie drama brings her precise acting tools to a comedy of manners, flouncing wittily onto a couch, exhaling every word in swooning intimacy, switching from fawn to fume in the wink of a lover's indiscretion. She can even speak American English without an accent. Surprise! Inside the Greer Garson roles Streep usually plays, a vixenish Carole Lombard is screaming to be cut loose...
...seems odd that the Harvard administration, which requires that undergraduates have decision-making power in all undergraduate organizations, should wink at, or even condone, the control of non-students over PBHA...