Word: crypticism
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...Peebles’s intended topics at his evening lectures are “Tokyo Traffic & Sea Turtles Laying Eggs,” “Porsches & Pyramids,” and lastly “Urban Culture & Dreams Deferred.” Elaborating on his cryptic lecture titles, Mr.Van Peebles’s publicity release explains: “The starting point in each of the three lectures are the insights to be gleaned from the juxtaposition of seemingly dissimilar, unencumbered, narrowly observed, generally held to be true facts, and how the aforementioned insights lead us back...
...best, street art repositions the public space around it, making it a place where cryptic little messages are offered to those who care to see them. Even an image that might not resonate much on its own--a flower, a cartoon bunny--sends out a different frequency when it shows up on a banged-up city block. Although it sometimes appears in the suburbs, street art is mostly a city format, borrowing its images from the primordial ooze of video games, advertising, science fiction, skateboard decals, porn and politics. Masked gunmen, spacemen and George W. Bush are all major motifs...
...ever imagined. I also discovered, by reading through scores of messages sent to the website?s e-mail address, that most of this audience disliked me. The most common charge against me was desertion. Good bloggers kept blogging all day long, I was bluntly informed by people whose cryptic screen names didn?t reveal whether they were male or female, old or young, from America or Jupiter. The faceless humanoids were also mad at me for using the meaningless phrase ?I could care less? when I should have written ?I couldn?t care less.? Finally, there was the problem...
...investigators. British officials are trying to gain access to Zeeshan Siddique, a British national arrested with a false passport in May 2005 in the frontier town of Peshawar; he eventually confessed he was part of a plot to bomb pubs, restaurants and rail stations in Britain. Siddique wrote a cryptic note saying one of his comrades told him that an operation code-named the "Wagon" had been postponed - which may have referred to the bombing that eventually took place on July 7. For all the talk of British flintiness in the face of tragedy, the realization that the attack...
Black programs show up in the defense budget under such cryptic code names as Link Hazel and Dreamland, and receive funds without the ordinary congressional review. Current projects, according to those who have peeked behind the veil, run the gamut from Grass Blade, designed to develop an air-defense system for intercepting low-flying helicopters, to Pilot Fish, aimed at placing transmitters on the ocean floor to pick up sonar data and transmit it to antisubmarine warfare craft. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Donald Hicks says that black budgeting is necessary "because a government as open...