Word: cipher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, from an inconsequential human cipher, Stephens leaped to importance as a central witness in one of the century's most shocking assassinations. He was so important that the state sought to do everything-even keep him a prisoner-to protect him against harm from possible accomplices in the killing. At first, Stephens willingly moved into Shelby County jail, where he was free to come and go but was accompanied by a bodyguard. He was away too often to suit police. Claiming that his activities outside the jail jeopardized his own safety, the state invoked a Tennessee law that...
...tried to determine if the faces on the cover were the key to a cipher, but were unable to break the code. Any attmpt to do this requires a key to the faces. "Sixteen" magazine published one last summer sometime. The gravest fault in the "Sixteen" key was that instead of admitting their ignorance when they couldn't identify a face, they called them all "Indian Gurus." There is an almost infinite number of ways a cipher could be built into the crowd of faces. It is a very frustrating way to spend a weekend...
...auntie to many orphaned spirits. Christopher Isherwood, the Beatles, Mia Sinatra: the list lengthens every year. The latest addition is Paul Fraser, the tall, blue-eyed New Yorker who is the troubled protagonist of this novel. At 46, Paul is a successful playwright and lover but, alas, a spiritual cipher. And after botching a suicide attempt, he drifts off to India-where Author Brown feels thoroughly at home...
Laurence's bold advertising copy is a lie too-a slick attempt to sell merchandise by creating illusions of spurious wellbeing. As for her husband's building developments, they represent nothing but built-in, functional ugliness. As a man, she concludes, he is just another cipher, an interchangeable part ("Why him rather than anyone else...
From this, success in leaps to mind, meaning that X - c. Each clue begets new clues until the cipher is solved. The cryptogram reads...