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Word: cryptical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give their characters the magnetism Williams and Lithgow create. Garp's education, which occupies the first part of the film, gets the story off to a sluggish start because the scenes focus on Jenny Fields, whose character is underdeveloped in the film and whose eccentric behavior is thus cryptic...

Author: By --thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Lunacy and Sorrow | 7/23/1982 | See Source »

...becomes apparent, vaguely, that the action consists of Claude's dilemma over what to do about getting drafted while various other characters worry about getting laid. But the dialogue is so sparse and cryptic that it's not clear until the final scene that Claude had been torn all along between conforming and resisting, rather than merely trying to decide how best to evade Uncle Sam. When he marches off to Southeast Asia, presumably to die for an empty cause, confusion overshadows the intended irony. Lost also are the characterizations of several of the more prominent female roles, especially those...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Hair For Its Own Sake | 7/20/1982 | See Source »

...detector, ultraviolet and infra-red sensors for gauging the tracks of enemy missiles, and a space sextant that will enable satellites, or even the shuttle, to navigate without guidance from earth. During the last flight, the only references to the top-secret devices came in the form of cryptic commands to the astronauts from the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. ("Switch 3-A to full auto. Bay 1 to zebra plus 3"). NASA's new security consciousness represents a sharp break with its traditional openness about space activities. It also reflects the Administration's concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Once and Future Shuttle | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...album ends as the concerts did, with a rather hokey taped excerpt from Jim Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner." The message in person was. "No encore, but isn't this a funny cryptic way of ending the show?" Reassuring, however, is Jagger's last line before the distorted guitar begins. "Thank yew..See yew next year--bah bah!" Gray hair and all, that would be nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Still Living | 6/25/1982 | See Source »

...THERE IS ANY FLAW in Peter Sellars's recasting of Orlando it is his tendency towards cryptic, coyly symbolic staging. Why, for instance, is there so much rolling around? Why does Zoroastro mug and wave at the audience incessantly? And why are all those cardboard boxes littering the stage in the last act? No doubt each of these elements has its place in Sellars's masterplan, but too often, his is an aggressively private vision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stellar Handel | 1/13/1982 | See Source »

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