Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. GONZALO FONSECA, 74, Uruguayan sculptor whose cryptic carvings, punctuated by unexpected hollows and totemic objects, were influenced by his excavations of pre-Columbian ruins; of a stroke; in Seravezza, Italy...
...journalist and the author of the riveting true-crime tale Missing Beauty. So while Without a Doubt has little to offer for the history books, it is well written, sometimes moving and occasionally amusing. At one point, Judge Lance Ito is compared with Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now: "increasingly cryptic and vain." And the anecdotes about fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden reveal a sweet rapport and a complex relationship. (As for the $64,000 question, Clark writes, tough-guy style, "The question is irrelevant. Fact of the matter is, Chris Darden and I were closer than lovers...
...Harvard administrator turns on her computer, only to find the cryptic message "Invalid System Disk" on her screen as the computer refuses to start. The hard drive contains the only copies of five years' worth of documents, databases and recommendations. Luckily, the virus that infected her computer could be removed--this time...
...take it with them. Each, according to police, carried identification, along with some money, in the front pockets of their nearly identical shirts. Suitcases were packed. The house was immaculate. They were ready to go. But on the sloughing off that mortal coil, the "Heaven's Gate" is decidedly cryptic. "The true meaning of "suicide" is to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered," it reads. It was an offer they could not refuse...
Thus began Kahn-Leavitt's five-year quest to bring Martha's life to film. Her vision was "to show a real person with this massive cryptic diary...