Word: crypticism
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...about him may be his wife Miyuki, who created an international stir by revealing she believed her soul was abducted by aliens and taken to Venus. Ironically, however, it is Hatoyama himself who is widely known as "the alien," the genesis of which has been credited to his often cryptic turns of phrase that leave Japanese guessing about his true opinions. "He's a very mysterious guy," says Masatoshi Honda, a professor of Japanese politics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. "We still don't know who Hatoyama...
...figure out which keywords are the most lucrative to create content around. All this gets fed into an algorithm that spits out only the most-in-demand story ideas, no human guesswork required. Sometimes the results make sense ("Nightlife in Paris," for example), but the computer often generates cryptic or oddly specific titles as well, like "How to Start a Lace-Wig Business in Maryland" or "How to Make a Room with a Waterfall." (See the top iPhone applications...
Such a high-profile collaboration was bound to receive a lot of hype, but the duo kept Broken Bells quiet for as long as possible. A cryptic website and stealth-marketing campaign used anagrams and binary code to increase the mystery. And they're touring with the same sort of restraint. Burton and Mercer promise a follow-up album and a full U.S. tour, but only a handful of shows have been scheduled. "There are always so many expectations," says Burton. "We're just trying to make music that we really like...
...Senior Gift Committee released a video parodying the “Don’t Vote” campaign. We didn’t think too much of that one either. But we look forward to this year's full-length video. If you think you can decode this cryptic teaser, feel free to leave a prediction about the next one in the comments...
Teddy is there to discover the whereabouts of both the missing inmate, Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), and, for his own satisfaction, the cryptic Andrew Laeddis (Elias Koteas, doing a neat impression of Robert De Niro's crazed killer in Cape Fear), who Teddy believes was responsible for Dolores' death by fire. Quizzing the patients, he gets evidence that sounds like death threats: a man (Jackie Earle Haley, indelible in a fleeting role) tells Teddy there's a grand plot closing in on the marshal, that he's "the rat in a maze"; one woman scribbles the urgent word...