Word: cryptically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes, when U.S. colloquialisms are so cryptic that not even a dictionary can help, members call on TIME's Seoul bureau. There reporter K.C. Hwang and assistant Kim Jung Ran aid in deciphering such curious expressions as Where's the beef?, laundering money, or read my lips...
...communications with the Kremlin, U.S. policymakers and diplomats have been careful not to make this pitch too explicit. They are afraid the KGB may make mischief between Washington and Bonn by leaking any cable or memorandum that reveals Americans to be exploiting Soviet anxiety about Germany. There is nothing cryptic about the apprehension of the British, French, Czechoslovaks and Poles as they watch the juggernaut of German unification. The Bush Administration keeps hoping the Kremlin will therefore not object too strenuously as the U.S. helps sponsor the emergence of a new Germany at the center of a new NATO...
Agents and writers have become savvy about inflaming the bidding passions of the big studios. Last month about 20 producers and studio bosses received packages containing black alarm clocks and the cryptic message "The Ticking Man Is Coming." The note described a screenplay by Manny Coto and Brian ( Helgeland about an android with a nuclear bomb implanted in its head. The next day producer Larry Gordon bought The Ticking Man for $1.2 million...