Word: ciphers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...executive Henry Silverman's career as boss of a publicly traded corporation. Silverman, 66, is no household name, but he may be one of the iconic figures of modern American capitalism. Either that or "the Zelig of the corporate world," as he once called himself, evoking Woody Allen's cipher of a character who shows up at major historical moments...
...focus on the conspirators was that Gentry and Berman, who play Brutus and Cassius respectively, were the standouts of the cast. Gentry, who is always fantastic, played the stoic Brutus with the requisite gravity and intensity, but with enough emotion so that he wasn’t just a cipher...
Often seen, rarely heard and openly gay in a hive of intense conservatives--Mary Cheney was a cipher to outsiders while working on her father Dick's two national campaigns. Her new memoir, Now It's My Turn, tells how she and partner Heather Poe adapted to a spotlight they had long shied away from. Now a chief of staff at AOL, Cheney, 37, spoke with TIME's Mike Allen about coming out, campaigning for her dad and another generation of Cheneys in politics...
...said: "Begin with the wimp factor. No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.... His presidential report card already shows an ?A' on foreign policy, but with the exceptions of tax policy and judicial selections, he remains a domestic-policy cipher. It's now up to him to decide whether he will complete his term by earning an A, an F or an incomplete...
...GOING TO SAY YOU'RE KIND OF LIKE A MALE CIPHER. FLIGHTPLAN WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR A GUY. AND THIS WOMAN ... Yeah, could easily have been a man. You wouldn't have had to change a word. Honestly, The Silence of the Lambs was the same. Panic Room as well. They could easily have been male characters...