Word: cryptical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young man invested with Montross's spirit, tells Diana that her grandfather has come back to reveal the sordid truth about her parents' past. Diana, in her attempt to unravel this cryptic mesage, somewhat predictably falls in love with Day. Her mission, then, becomes not only to pacify her grandfather's restless spirit, but to liberate Day from this psychic bond which prevents him from forming any more conventional ones with Diana...
...Israeli assertion to show that the tape was genuine. A man identified as Abbas, but referring to himself by the nom de guerre Abu Khaled, could be heard talking of "our objective" to the hijackers aboard the Achille Lauro. The conversation, with much static in the background, was somewhat cryptic, but at least seemed to indicate that Abu Khaled knew the hijackers personally. Said he: "Listen to me well. First of all, the passengers should be treated very well. In addition, you must apologize to them and the ship's crew, and to the captain, and tell them our objective...
That and other tantalizing throw-away lines will no doubt be explored in diplomatic channels. But there is nothing cryptic about Gorbachev's principal purpose: he used the interview to position himself as advantageously as possible for his appointment in Geneva eleven weeks from now with Ronald Reagan...
...moving across the bleak landscape of southwestern England early in the 18th century. Fragmentary, half-perceived scenes reveal that most of the outward facts that can be learned about this little group are untrue. Their names, their social stations, their relationships to one another are shifting masks in a cryptic performance. They are surely bound together in a more ominous enterprise than they pretend, yet only one of them seems to know their destination. After a night at an inn, they ride on. Within days, one member of the party is found hanged from a tree, another has apparently dematerialized...
Fragments of evidence -- secret payments, cryptic cables, visits from high Iranian officials -- indicate that Khomeini's regime may be in close touch with the terrorists, if not managing them. The camps enjoy at least the tacit support of Syria as well, since the Bekaa Valley is controlled by Damascus. In a remarkably candid speech last week, Syrian President Hafez Assad conceded that Syria was in contact with extremist groups who are holding seven Americans, four Frenchmen and one Briton, seized over the past 18 months. Assad mildly rebuked the kidnapers for violating a "code of honor between combatants," but praised...