Word: ciphering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwhelming, depressing perspective into relief, showing her more personable side only away from his presence. Solness believes thathe has willed all his luck, but when we see that he does not even understand his own wife, the young visitor Hilde Wangel, spunkily played by Kristin Flanders, becomes the cipher through which the audience understands the play. Hilde is young and sensible, pretty and plucky (Solness enunciates "Hilde" like a connoisseur of youth)--without her coloring, The Master Builder could easily be a bore, weighing down our attentions and our spirits. The Master Builder, a relatively short play, comes...
...nation primary is crucial, and for months Al Gore has waged all-out war to win it--ladling out federal largesse and making enough calls to the party faithful to put a telemarketer to shame. But while the Vice President lines up votes and money, Bradley remains a cipher, a candidate with no organization, even in battleground states like New Hampshire and Iowa. Democrats say they have little sense of him or his message. A new TIME/CNN poll shows Gore leading Bradley 44% to 12% among Democrats, with 54% of overall respondents saying they don't know who Bradley...
...realm where American art gave up its spiritual reach in exchange for the bounty of commerce. Warhol, more than any of his peers, was its avatar, its passive-aggressive emperor with a tapioca complexion and a pale wig, gliding through its landscape as prankster and publicist, pariah, sexual cipher, parvenu...
...trade. But much will hinge on Jiang himself and on what he says and does on a trip that will take him to Honolulu, Williamsburg, Va., Washington, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston and Los Angeles. While the American public regards him--if they regard him at all--as a cipher, until recently he was dismissed by some U.S. officials as a lightweight incapable of surviving the hardball intrigues at the top level of Chinese politics. But since the death of his mentor, Deng Xiaoping, in February, Jiang's reputation has been completely rewritten. He is now acknowledged...
...unfathomable is Scheider's stony-faced patriarch, who offers no clue to any of his actions or offenses against his children. Danner gets next to nothing to do as the sensible, yet oddly passive mother; and Kerwin's Elliot, a psychotherapist with no apparent therapeutic skills, remains a mere cipher, a receptacle for Mia's pent-up rage...