Word: cipher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radio technician who posed as a photographer and amateur artist while leading his double life in Brooklyn. There he rented a $35-a-month studio near the federal courthouse. Like fictional spies, Abel used a variety of arcane items: hollow bolts and coins to carry messages, phony documents, cipher books. In 1953 one of his hollow nickels containing microfilm found its way into the hands of a newsboy, who gave the coin to the police. But FBI agents did not bag Abel until four years later, when an underling defected and turned him in. He admitted only that...
...Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is," the philosopher Walter Kaufmann wrote. In this sense Steiner is a curious but stimulating blend of visionary rationalism who obviously shares the dream he attributes to Borges: "No living thing or sound but contains a cipher...
...featuring teen-age girls who struggle to ally themselves with crude and hopeless romantic lyrics; and an SPFC meeting during which evening-jacketed bourgeois folk turn on for the first time. But there is so little control over the film that even these go wrong: Henry often becomes a cipher; the SPFC scene is both cruel and whimsical in a mix that doesn't mesh; and I even may be mistaken about the purpose of the songs the girls were singing: I am told that one of them, Tom Eyen's "Ode to a Screw," passes for chic these days...
...Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when the bombs fell, is the same shrunken cipher who appeared in all the newsreels. It is he who bears the verbal assault delivered by Cordell Hull, played by George Macready, one of the few performers capable of diplomatic outrage...
Lighter Side. Literary lunacies abound. Under "Shakespeare and the Computers" is a revelation from an Enfield College of Technology scholar who used a computer to crack the cipher of the sonnets. Solution: Shakespeare was really Edward VI, who, contrary to popular belief, died at 125 instead of 16 after writing all of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and Don Quixote...