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Word: cryptically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three top White House figures testified before the Senate Whitewater committee today. Under intense questioning by committee chairman Alfonse D'Amato, former White House attorney William Kennedy asserted that his notes of a 1993 Whitewater meeting, while cryptic, were innocuous. The phrase "Vacuum, Rose Law files" was not "an integrated phrase," Kennedy told the committee. Instead, the words referred not to a plan to remove (i.e. vacuum) files from the firm, but to a lack of Whitewater information at the Rose firm where Hillary Clinton formerly was a partner. Another phrase of particular interest to investigators, "Documents -- never know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MEANING OF WORDS: | 1/16/1996 | See Source »

Still other services run off menu-driven interfaces, or off text-based systems which are as unfriendly and cryptic as they are powerful. In each case the user gains a certain proprietary familiarity with the system. It forms the lens through which he sees the cyber-world; it gives her the hands with which to manipulate objects and perform tasks. It is the mind's extension and tool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CYBERSPACE FRONTIER | 10/25/1995 | See Source »

This striking poem is the final realization of the book's rather cryptic title. In the end, the poet is left only with the "burned house" of her own, singular body, "holding my cindery, non-existent/radiant flesh. Incandescent...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Atwood's Poetry Focuses on a Home | 10/19/1995 | See Source »

Whatever compulsion artists feel towards self-portraiture, the pictures they paint clarify their artistic vision more than their personal characters. No less so for the master of cryptic film-making, Ingmar Bergman, who often saw a need to reflect on his work, though never to illuminate...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Bergman's Fantasies Live On at The HFA | 10/5/1995 | See Source »

Inside an envelope retrieved from a Crimson dumpster the night of May 28, a wallet-sized color photograph of Tadesse accompanied a cryptic note...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Dunster Murder-Suicide Remembered | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

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