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Scott writes: "The next night, chatting with Newsweek 's Michael Isikoff and NOW President Patricia Ireland, Matthews was less coy.
Mitchell Rabkin) is a coy metaphor for deep trouble.
MoMA's coy refusal to identify the subjects of the portraits (wall panels give title, date, and medium) suggests that their identities don't matter, even while first-name titles imply that they do--that intimacies are being explored and revealed.
Sure the big companies are more coy in their pitches--the Hall's Zinc Defense box says zinc "may" relieve cold symptoms and, in small print, denies making any claim to treating a health condition--but that only makes the sham more effective.
Traditional country is a sidestepping, roundabout art, fond of coy and cagey divagations.