The play, which begins and ends with Robeson's taped message of regret over being unable to attend his 75th birthday celebration at Carnegie Hall, barely alludes to the crippling depression of his later years.

Pelops wins because he is given even swifter horses by his lover Poseidon; Oenomaus's death is barely alluded to; Myrtilos not at all.

Mr. Bush made no public mention of those subsidies at the summit meeting, and Mr. Annan, clearly seeking to encourage the Western aid program, barely alluded to the issue.

Mr. Reagan barely alluded to the political storm surrounding the Iran arms sale and accused his critics of trying "to bring the curtain down" on his Presidency "before the show is over."

She wrote a name-dropping memoir, but for something attacked for exaggeration, it barely alludes to homosexuality".

But the Pope, unusually, did not meet with human rights leaders; indeed, he barely alluded to the horror.

One major problem is that the film's literary namesake remains a remote figure appearing only in flashbacks that reveal next to nothing about his life (the screenplay barely alludes to his homosexuality).

Even after the truth was out, the serious media barely alluded to the mammoth hole that had been blown in Bradley's "cerebral" image.

The memorandum's authors barely allude to Monica S. Lewinsky, the former White House intern who has been reported to have told friends that she had a sexual relationship with Mr. Clinton.

Today, Mr. Dole barely alluded to the pain of the past.