Word: cryptic
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...Harvard administrator turns on her computer, only to find the cryptic message "Invalid System Disk" on her screen as the computer refuses to start. The hard drive contains the only copies of five years' worth of documents, databases and recommendations. Luckily, the virus that infected her computer could be removed--this time...
...take it with them. Each, according to police, carried identification, along with some money, in the front pockets of their nearly identical shirts. Suitcases were packed. The house was immaculate. They were ready to go. But on the sloughing off that mortal coil, the "Heaven's Gate" is decidedly cryptic. "The true meaning of "suicide" is to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered," it reads. It was an offer they could not refuse...
Thus began Kahn-Leavitt's five-year quest to bring Martha's life to film. Her vision was "to show a real person with this massive cryptic diary...
...down Main Street U.S.A., one felt transported to a small town of America's past, only this one was much, much more crowded. "Disneyland, Population 300,000,000" a suspicious sign read. Was this a ballpark guess of how many people squeeze inside the park each day? Or a cryptic suggestion of how Michael Eisner intended to consume the entire country into his corporate structure? It was far from clear...
Markovic, however, is very powerful. She is the leader of the Yugoslav United Left, an alliance of some 20 communist groups aligned with her husband's socialist party. Her column in Duga, a Belgrade bimonthly magazine, is closely watched for the latest clues to her husband's policies. Her cryptic comments, intermingled with poetic observations on weather, have led Serbs to call her column "the Horoscope." In addition, Markovic believes herself to be clairvoyant and claims to have foreseen the disintegration of Yugoslavia while seated on a beach near Dubrovnik with her husband...