Word: cryptical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Peretz did not give his readers the benefit of any of the relevant facts about Bachrach. He merely asked them to accept his cryptic condemnation on faith. (It's hard to imagine any decent editor letting a writer get away with this sort of ipse dixit, but I guess the owner of a magazine doesn't have to submit to the usual red pencil...
...protesting phone call. "Captain Midnight," an outraged consumer of the space age, took more daring action. In a sneak attack made just after midnight on Sunday of last week, the self- appointed video avenger broke into an HBO presentation of the movie The Falcon and the Snowman with a cryptic message: GOODEVENING HBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT. $12.95 A MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/ THE MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE...
...from a jilted lover ("Everyone tells me I'll get over it . . . but how could they ever begin to know how much I loved you?"), a modified zinger to get a friend to back off ("I want to please you, but first I have to please myself"), and a cryptic note aimed at intimates who apparently intend to conduct the rest of their relationship over the phone ("More than anything, it's the eye contact I'll miss...
...talk, attended by about 50 undergraduates at Phillips Brooks House, was sponsored by an organization with the cryptic name, the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles...
...film unfolds with various disjointed shots of Benares and its human and animal inhabitants. A farmer picks orange flowers; strong, muscular bodies chop wood; two men assemble a bamboo ladder; white-robed workers hose down flat stone; holy men chant cryptic chants; a small, squeaky boat glides over the river. Then come the bodies, ushering in with them the audience's epiphany. Bodies covered with orange flowers, bodies over flames, bodies on top of bamboo ladders--suddenly, the disjointed pictorial congeals into a single entity. Death. Everyone in this Hindu society lives and labors for their holy deceased...