Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down Main Street U.S.A., one felt transported to a small town of America's past, only this one was much, much more crowded. "Disneyland, Population 300,000,000" a suspicious sign read. Was this a ballpark guess of how many people squeeze inside the park each day? Or a cryptic suggestion of how Michael Eisner intended to consume the entire country into his corporate structure? It was far from clear...
Markovic, however, is very powerful. She is the leader of the Yugoslav United Left, an alliance of some 20 communist groups aligned with her husband's socialist party. Her column in Duga, a Belgrade bimonthly magazine, is closely watched for the latest clues to her husband's policies. Her cryptic comments, intermingled with poetic observations on weather, have led Serbs to call her column "the Horoscope." In addition, Markovic believes herself to be clairvoyant and claims to have foreseen the disintegration of Yugoslavia while seated on a beach near Dubrovnik with her husband...
...trying to prepare its passengers for this reduction in subway safety with large posters in subway cars that announce that the cryptic "OPTO" will soon be featured on some subway lines. The acronym OPTO is spelled in huge letters; underneath, in smaller characters, the poster informs passengers that OPTO actually stands for One Person Train Operation. Does the MTA really believe that people are so gullible that the use of an acronym written in foot high letters will convince them that this policy is desirable? What's next, posters trumpeting EDAT to prepare travelers for Extra Derailments At Night...
...same ironic vein, Sayles first has Pilar's mother call the Border Patrol upon seeing two "wetbacks" (illegal immigrants across the Rio) and then reveals through a flashback her own frightening nightwade across the river. And Sam is constantly hearing what may or may not be cryptic don't-go-there messages in the stories of those he interviews. (Never know what you might find once you get to "poking around...
Perot, as he often does, is giving mixed signals about his intentions. When he met privately with Lamm and Lamm's brother Tom, he was cryptic enough to send the siblings away with conflicting readings. Tom thought Perot could be taken at his word about preferring not to run. Richard saw a greater chance that Perot would seize the nomination...