Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this code signal was broadcast over walkie-talkie radios early last week, some 65,000 Iranian troops and militia launched the most ambitious counterattack of the 20-month border war between Iran and Iraq. The prize: the Iranian port of Khorramshahr, which the Iraqis had captured soon after crossing to the Iranian side of the Shatt al Arab at the start...
...dealmaking, the fledgling company, which had only about 20 traders operating out of a fifth-floor attic above a Wall Street area clothing shop, elbowed its way into the thick of play. Using what they thought to be sophisticated, computer-guided trading strategies based on a secret computer program code-named Arnold, Drysdale's two top dealers, Richard Taaffe, president, and David Heuwetter, chief trader, managed in little more than three months' time to amass an astonishing $4 billion-plus portfolio of borrowed U.S. Treasury securities...
...1960s abstraction was all, and figure painting was out of style; the code phrase for this was "historically impossible," as though history itself-rather than a group of curators, critics and dealers-were engaged in majestically dictating what should be seen. In the 1980s, bored half to death by the austerities of minimalism, a now much larger (though not necessarily smarter or wiser) group of art consumers wants recognizable images and fictions of involvement; so we are inundated by painting that makes reference to the human figure. This is "historically inevitable." Impossible, inevitable: it only goes to show what...
Engel's own literary projects for the summer include Northrop Frye's The Great Code. Mather's translation of The Thousand Knights and One Knight, Irving Howe's edition of The Portable Kipling. The Letters of Oppenheimer, and a rereading of Andre Gide's The Counterfeiters...
...Rather gave him five minutes to talk about an Alaska pipeline bill, Moyers concluded: "On this bill, the two-party system was not up for grabs. It was up for sale." Strong stuff. Delighted, Ralph Nader's reformers sent every Congressman a copy. But listen to the CBS code of standards: The analyst's "function is to help the listener to understand, to weigh, and to judge, but not to do the judging for him." Moyers says: "I try to stay on this side of advocacy, but it's a dancing line, and sometimes...