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Make Up the Breakdown, the title of Hot Hot Heat’s latest album, is cryptic enough to fuel the overly creative minds of critics and fans alike. It works perfectly as an attack on the sort of musicians who imprint their discs with fabricated tears and scars. And it is a jibe at publicity-hungry artists who spill tales of conflict in the studio to feed the chaos-friendly media...
Most people are probably unaware that Benjamin Franklin once wrote a letter beginning with the cryptic phrase: “Diir Sir, yi hav transkryb’d iur alfabet.” But this very letter from this founding father, innovator and advocate of spelling reform is on display this month in the Houghton Library’s “Alphabetics,” an exhibition of book arts involving unusual and creative thought about letters...
...rain, cold, wet and alone. Helen Dimos ’03 and Nina O. Yuen ’03, the event’s organizers and apparently the only fun-seekers at Harvard, claim that they haven’t been deterred by the failure of their oddly cryptic signage to attract throngs of weekend revelers. They promise that THE FUN will make a second appearance sometime soon, offering such activities as “songs, dances, presentations of scientific findings, observations of little bugs, happy thoughts about people” and, with any luck, some fun as well...
...copy of Shakespeare’s complete works, for example, which I have borrowed from my father who bought it, used, in the early ’70s, includes both cryptic notes (including “Wed. 8/ Apt. 2” and “Mrs. Price—$94”) and such historic marginalia as poorly drawn peace signs in blue ink—one of which is actually the Mercedes logo. A copy of E.B. White’s collected essays that I’ve been reading contains running marginal criticism...
...some dough off of unexpressed high school angst. The frenzied flower-selling activity in the hallways—“Buy a Rose for Community Service!”—spurs frantic discussion among the cliques. Should you send one to your secret crush with a cryptic message? A real message? Should it arrive during math or English? Do you think you even have a chance? Thus student groups increase their budgets—and often their ubiquitous social “slush funds”—with the cash cow that is Valentine?...