Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away for Little Orphan Annie's secret-society badges, Tom Mix's fabulous "mirror ring" (without turning his head, the wearer could see if he was being tracked), and Jack Armstrong's whistle ring, which sounded like a tiny siren and came with its own secret code...
...Engman had made his speech during the '30s, kids all over the country would have consulted their Jack Armstrong code books and then sent out the appropriate warning of four short blasts. The meaning: "We're being watched...
...code, which becomes a part of the constitution in January, sets up tight registration and reporting requirements for lobbyists, prohibits them from contributing to political campaigns, and limits the amount they can spend entertaining any elected official to $10 a month-"enough for two hamburgers and a Coke," says Brown. In addition, the measure requires financial disclosure for all elected officials and sets limitations on campaign spending...
...Mishima from merely exotic decadence was his creative vigor and intelligence. He found a larger context for his obsessions in the Japanese martial tradition, which formalized his bloody impulses and created in him a kind of reverence for heroic self-slaughter, the ultimate self-abuse. He lived the anachronistic code of bunburyodo, the samurai tradition of art and action. Or he lived it some of the time. He played other roles as well, among them that of a conventional husband (he was married for twelve years and had two children). He was also a thoroughly Westernized man of letters...
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this otherwise sleazy movie is its laissez-faire morality. Private eyes, and movies about them, generally adhere to a moral code so strict that it often looks sentimental. Black Eye remains unruffled about everything from homosexuality and runaway kids to mind-warping evangelism and slaughter in the name of the law. By comparison with Stone, Mike Hammer would look like Lancelot of the Lake...