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...risk of seeming paranoid: the A.M.A. is opposed to this, and all the medical societies -- but not the average doctor. More than half like it, but they can't speak because the A.M.A. will come down hard on them. You call this a democracy? Ha! It's a cryptic totalitarian state...
...radio, a band called Steely Dan was making some of the most elegantly offbeat, wickedly incisive music ever to sneak onto the pop charts. Hits like Reeling in the Years and Rikki Don't Lose That Number were only the tip of the creative iceberg; beneath the taut tempos, cryptic lyrics and refreshingly unfamiliar melodies lurked an arcane, darkly sardonic intelligence summed up by the group's name, which was inspired by the moniker for a sexual appliance in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch...
...there. But in contrast to the blow-by-blow account of the operation, the rest of McClintick's story -- Navarro's escape from the U.S., her capture and (probably) illegal extradition for trial from Venezuela, Darias' misadventures as an unhappy witness -- is told in a kind of tired, cryptic shorthand. Darias had the street-smarts to tape his agents as well as his marks. McClintick, who was widely praised for his 1982 Hollywood expose, Indecent Exposure, uses the transcripts of those conversations in such numbing detail that he seemingly ran out of pages to conclude the narrative properly...
...sees people being beaten on their front lawns by mysterious men in gray suits. At a restaurant a goon squad abducts a customer while other diners barely look up from their pasta salads. Harry's five-year- old daughter, who doesn't talk, suddenly breaks her silence with one cryptic sentence: "Everything must go." And that's not counting the virtual- reality glasses that transport Harry into an 18th century ballroom, the strange palm-tree tattoos that seem to have become a fashion statement, and the creepy Senator who tries to recruit Harry to some shadowy cause by sending...
...thing DOS 6.0 probably does do better than its predecessors is its memory management. According to Microsoft, the user can now get system memory automatically optimized for efficiency. This should save the user from having so the cryptic CONFIG.SYS file when, say, more memory is added to the system...