Word: cryptical
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This Michael that DeNiro plays is one of those great American heroes who has it both ways. He is both perfect model and one of the guys. He is the leader of the group, but also a man apart, emotionally cryptic. He walks a narrower road than his buddies; we see him gracefully climb a mountain above their heads and, with snowcapped peak behind him, a male choir singing, and rain clouds swirling, stalk a buck and drop it with one shot. Then they're back in the bar listening to Chopin, his Teutonic supremacy affirmed. He relaxes with...
...cryptic tablets tumbled thousands of names, places, deals and directives, accounts of taxes paid, textiles traded and treaties sealed. One tablet listed 70 names of animals; another, 260 ancient cities not yet known to historians. Still another was a breakdown of booty taken in a conquest of neighboring Mari, 240 miles away: the victorious commander got 15%, the rest went to the king of Ebla. Along with some literary documents, Pettinato also discovered a spectacular bonus: bilingual dictionaries, the oldest ever found, matching Eblaite words to Sumerian equivalents -and confirming his readings of the new language...
Reagan was publicly cryptic. Reporters pressed him during a brief photo session about where he would find money for the military. Said he: "Well, we sure can't go to Brazil." White House aides were quick to emphasize that no strategic policy or weapon would be rejected solely because of cost. Said Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III: "The President is not going to say, 'This system is necessary but we can't afford it.' " But in the running battle between those aides who see the Reagan mandate as economic recovery and those...
Vorenberg remains similarly cryptic about his plans for the Law School after he takes over as dean July 1. In keeping with his penchant for carefully thinking things out, he says only that "it is too soon to tell" what changes, if any, he'll make. "I will take the next four months to talk to people and consider ideas...
...through an always nervous investment world. Wealthy clients were summoned from their breakfasts in luxurious European hotels and from beaches in the Caribbean. In Manhattan, the wife of a Wall Street executive answered the telephone and heard a voice declare coolly: "I have an early warning for you." The cryptic message: "Sell everything. Market top has been reached. Go short on stocks having sharpest advances since April." A battery of 34 employees transmitted the news for more than eight hours, until the final message went out at 2:45 Wednesday morning...