Word: winks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this might remain just an intricate, private, directorial joke, except that Clair gives the show away with a colossal wink: the principals are engaged in making 1906 movies, and Clair's camera inspects some prime ribs of primitive cinemacting with all the grave astonishment of a visitor from another planet...
...Spoonerisms,"† and familiar fables in a gobbledygook of backtalk. (Examples: the Pee Little Thrigs, Wink van Ripple, the Beeping Sleauty, Paul Revide's Rear...
...been settled. No treaties with Germany and Japan were in sight. It had been Franklin Roosevelt's Grand Design, epitomized in his gamble at Yalta, that the West could reach an understanding with Soviet Russia. In continuation of the wartime alliance (and in exchange for a Western wink at Moscow's absorption of millions of hapless non-Russians and 275,000 square miles of territory for greater "security"), the Kremlin was expected to cooperate in the world's steep climb back toward recovery and peace. The U.N. Charter had been signed in such unrealistic hope...
...What do you want to go to Flushing Meadow for, honey?" a Manhattan taxi driver asked a TIME researcher last week. "I'm going to the United Nations," she said. "Well," he said with a wink, "that used to be quite a lovers' lane...
...thing a camera does superbly is to seize the moment. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put on a show of pictures-each made in a wink-which brought back moments from the past decade more vividly than memory can. They were candid camera shots snapped by France's most distinguished documentary photographer, Henri Carder-Bresson...