Word: clue
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...thus we don't fully register the human tragedy of his betrayal. Even that treachery seems kind of piddly. Maybe the cold war is already too distant for us to appreciate why Güillaume's spying was so damaging to West Germany, but Frayn does little to clue...
Matthew was once again trying to tie his Nativity ever tighter to the Old Testament so that potential Jewish converts could feel comfortable with the new religion. The clue is Herod, whose failure to track down Jesus leads him to order the death of all local children under age 2. That "Slaughter of the Innocents" is a near replay of a much earlier infanticide: Pharaoh's murder of all the male infants of Israel in Exodus. Jews would recall that Pharaoh's most famous escapee (via those bulrushes) was Moses, who eventually received the Law from God at Sinai. Through...
...film, Ben Gates (Nicholas Cage) is some sort of Indiana Jones meets Urban Outfitters anthropologist obsessed with finding an ages-old treasure hidden by Old White Men (OWM). The clue to its whereabouts has been passed down through Gates’s family after an OWM entrusted his chariot driver (a Gates) with the information. Naturally, in true Da Vinci Code tradition, the OWM decided to be atrociously cryptic and left clues after clues after clues. Gates and his side-kick Riley meet hot, smart blonde Abigail, steal the Declaration of Independence (it’s a treasure...
...completely irrelevant and lengthy aside on Pittsburgh and its position in the BCS. Anyone who said that it’s a travesty or a shame or so on that the Panthers are going to a BCS bowl game by winning the Big East has absolutely no clue what he or she is talking about. The only reason the BCS was created was to make sure that the conference champions, if they finished number one or number two in the country, would be free to play each other, rather than being locked into traditional bowl alliances (i.e. SEC with...
...What a talented, talented frontcourt player,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said. “We had no clue who he was [or] how good he was, only that there was a chance that this kid was going to be in the game. They’ve got a terrific young player there...