• The location has become so synonymous with the stranger moments in rock music history that the films Almost Famous and This Is Spinal Tap used the hotel as a filming location, both in an effort to add a bit of authenticity and as a wink to music fans in the know.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Long before Mr Edwards went on trial, Louisiana's politicians were assumed to greet anyone who tried to do business in the state with a wink and an upturned palm.

    ECONOMIST: Louisiana politics

  • In reaction, and with a wink from the army, antiguerrilla para-military groups have formed, further making the government appear weak and irrelevant.

    FORBES: Fact And Comment

  • "No one in the audience noticed a difference, " Wink says.

    FORBES: Blue Coup

  • In April of 2000, a man named Gemini Wink was hiking through the swamps near Tampa, Florida, looking to take pictures of alligators.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In a short preface Mr Kynaston says that his intention was to demythologise the City which had thought of itself as a village in which a man's word was his bond and discipline was administered by a nod and a wink from the governor of the Bank of England.

    ECONOMIST: A picture that is worth a million words

  • As for the Biennale, organized by the Dallas Contemporary museum, the exhibit at the downtown Neiman Marcus includes neon sculptures by Ms. Fleury that wink at consumer culture and brash style in a city where "live large" is a motto.

    WSJ: Dallas Art Fair, Biennale to Begin, Plus Jacob Kassay, Erick Swenson

  • You may have sent introductory messages to only two people, and marked a few others with a wink a nonverbal expression of interest but Match will have hundreds of people in its database who have done a lot more on the site, and whose behavior yours seems to resemble.

    NEWYORKER: Looking for Someone

  • There is much talk of a "soft three-line whip" in which the stern warnings delivered to dissidents are softened by a nudge and a wink and the subliminal implication that the Conservative hierarchy isn't serious and is offering purely nominal support, to appease Nick Clegg.

    BBC: Lords reform looks set to snarl up the Commons

  • Wink never went away, and in fact the little firm has generated a fair amount of publicity by casting itself as the critical gateway between the consumer and the advertiser or retailer.

    FORBES: My Friend, My Enemy

  • Wink never went away, and in fact her little outfit has generated a fair amount of publicity by casting itself as the critical gateway between the consumer and the advertiser or retailer.

    FORBES: My Friend, My Enemy

  • Representative DONALD PAYNE (Democrat, New Jersey): We are very disturbed at the new policy of the administration, sort of a wink-and-a-nod policy, that is seen to be in play now.

    NPR: U.S. Relationship with Sudan a Balancing Act

  • Best case that seems to be a wink and a nod that the feds have better things to do than bust pot shops in Washington and Colorado.

    FORBES: White House Blows Smoke At Pot Petitions

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