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Word: cryptically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought you would never") to the alley-caterwauling harmonies on I Don't Believe You and Don't Know a Thing About Love. The final song, What Goes Around, features Harrison-like guitars gently weeping in harmony, an extended coda a la Hey Jude, and at the end a cryptic spoken message. The phrase is either "All the same" or "I buried Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's In His Blood | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

...that she conjures, dead relatives command greater attention than the living. It is a measure of the author's formidable skills that she vividly evokes the misery of Momma Towne and her four stepdaughters without suffocating the reader in their chronic gloom. While the backdrop is one of complaint, cryptic exchanges -- "That again? Are we rehashing that again?" -- are enough to remind us of the women's litany. Their oppressive unhappiness is artfully offset by the vitality of the three youngest Townes, who, like flowers that bloom in urban sidewalk cracks, fight for life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dancing On Graves | 4/20/1992 | See Source »

...best way to present a man's life, not as it is but as it is remembered, and to cue us to recognize that a father's, a mother's, a sibling's love is a precious, imperiled gift. The movie is as complex as a cryptic crossword, and as direct as Celestin's greeting when Thomas comes to visit his retarded brother: "You're here. I'm happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in A Web of Love | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

...will duel it out this week in the impossible-to-predict South Dakota primary. Kerrey remains the far more intriguing candidate, both in his potential electability and in his still evolving efforts to define himself. Voters like Kerrey, but they do not understand him, especially when he makes such cryptic comments as "I know what it is like to be alone, and I'll tell you when I'm President there won't be a single person who will feel alone." Moreover, he cannot seem to explain how to connect the dots in his shadowy vision of "fundamental change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Where Do They Go from Here? | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

...actress in Moment to Moment, Daena Giardella, improvises the entire show. Even though the program claims that the play is Giardella's commentary on life, her cryptic commentary makes no sense. In the first scene, two musicians play the drums and an organ for about ten minutes. They succeed only in lulling the audience to sleep...

Author: By Sucharita Mulpuru, | Title: Maalox Moment: | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

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