Word: crypticism
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After several such rattling incidents, I asked Clark, who had been such an agreeable deputy to me at the State Department, what was going on. Clark, drained of his old good fellowship, gave me a cryptic answer. "You've won a lot of battles in this Administration, Al," he said, "but you'd better understand that from now on it's going to be the President's foreign policy...
...paper in a wastebasket of a hotel room Mme. Vercel once stayed in. Wandering out into a strange neighborhood, she walks a few blocks, then happens to climb a high wooden fence, behind which an announcer for a horse race happens, just at that moment, to call out the cryptic words that--surprise--happened to be scribbled on the note. This happens again and again; the movie, in fact, stops just short of producing the name of the murderer as a cerealbox prize. Consequently, Vercel and company's efforts become redundant at best. Emphatically cardboard, the characters, who constantly mouth...
...later scene, the Meyrands are posing for baby Bernard's baptismal picture when Helene herself gets confused about her identity. Near the photograph session, a group of schoolchildren is playing. Suddenly, a teacher calls out "Helene" to one of them and Helene-Patricia automatically swirls around. Pierre casts a cryptic stare...
...that others should but do not feel until she becomes a ravening albino panther, be heading animals and humans alike. These surreal people do not simply stand for such concepts as overpopulation or guilt; they also take their places in what the au thor calls "the infinitely rich and cryptic texture of human life...
...what does that cryptic phrase signify? Presumably, the athletic-looking fellow wearing it must either have inherited the valuable garment or have taken a leave of absence; for the explanation, let's go back to one of the Crimson's most miserable Saturdays, October...