Word: ciphering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort has not made an impression on the public. Since the trial is not televised, McVeigh is more like an evil cipher, and the proceedings have not been the talk of lunchrooms across America. "Some people follow it," says Everett White, 55, of Pueblo, Colo. "You see it in the papers, but it's not like that other one, with...what's his name?" As for McVeigh's guilt, says Mark Collins, city manager of Gunnison, Colo.: "Jeez, you think there's a question there...
...realize that these richies don't always win. Michael Huffington is always used as the example of how money alone can't buy a Senate seat if the candidate is doing a pretty good impression of a cipher. But the nominee of the Reform Party isn't going to win anyway. Winning isn't the point of a third party. In others words--looking at this from the point of view of a party loyalist--nominating somebody other than Ross Perot means that we're going to split the check for the full meal even though no entrees were brought...
...important change from TV's early days, when series characters were largely static from episode to episode, season to season. There was little shading or evolution in Darrin Stephens' nincompoopcy. And Joe Friday--not counting the occasional expression of disgust with punks and hippies--was a tragically repressed emotional cipher (which isn't to say audiences would have wanted to see Jack Webb really air it out as an actor). In essence, TV's early characters were subjected to the same drama every week, as if they were stuck in a time warp. Would Darrin stop Larry Tate from finding...
Robert Vesco had escaped for so long it seemed he had escaped from memory. When the Cuban government announced last week that it had placed the fugitive American financier under arrest, Vesco was little more than a cipher, a relic from an earlier generation, recalled in vague outline for his criminal odyssey around the Caribbean and for a broad range of roles -- millionaire, gambler, stock cheat, illegal campaign contributor, Watergate shadow, drug dealer, scoundrel. He was, for archaeologists of roguery, the fossil evidence that money can buy power and immunity from the reach of the law. Now, suddenly and surprisingly...
...that agent Aldrich Ames was a Soviet mole. Even worse, large parts of the CIA's operation bored Woolsey, and its insular culture frustrated him. He once complained to an associate that the agency "needed a psychiatrist, not a manager." Senior agency hands were miffed when he put a cipher lock on the door to his already heavily guarded office suite, signaling to them that he wouldn't be accessible. Months ago a senior White House official concluded, "Woolsey has been miscast...