Word: crypticism
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This Michael that DeNiro plays is one of those great American heroes who has it both ways. He is both perfect model and one of the guys. He is the leader of the group, but also a man apart, emotionally cryptic. He walks a narrower road than his buddies; we see him gracefully climb a mountain above their heads and, with snowcapped peak behind him, a male choir singing, and rain clouds swirling, stalk a buck and drop it with one shot. Then they're back in the bar listening to Chopin, his Teutonic supremacy affirmed. He relaxes with...
...THERE IS a surreal quality to the people Brinnin has assembled. Flitting in and out of each other's lives with a bewildering ease, alluding with cryptic statements to another part of their lives, outside the bounds of Brinnin's knowledge: These are not real people, but characters from another time. On the verge of recognition or oblivion, they appear briefly to impart a glimpse of their lives, haunted, driven, fleeting...
...cryptic tablets tumbled thousands of names, places, deals and directives, accounts of taxes paid, textiles traded and treaties sealed. One tablet listed 70 names of animals; another, 260 ancient cities not yet known to historians. Still another was a breakdown of booty taken in a conquest of neighboring Mari, 240 miles away: the victorious commander got 15%, the rest went to the king of Ebla. Along with some literary documents, Pettinato also discovered a spectacular bonus: bilingual dictionaries, the oldest ever found, matching Eblaite words to Sumerian equivalents -and confirming his readings of the new language...
Reagan was publicly cryptic. Reporters pressed him during a brief photo session about where he would find money for the military. Said he: "Well, we sure can't go to Brazil." White House aides were quick to emphasize that no strategic policy or weapon would be rejected solely because of cost. Said Counsellor to the President Edwin Meese III: "The President is not going to say, 'This system is necessary but we can't afford it.' " But in the running battle between those aides who see the Reagan mandate as economic recovery and those...
Vorenberg remains similarly cryptic about his plans for the Law School after he takes over as dean July 1. In keeping with his penchant for carefully thinking things out, he says only that "it is too soon to tell" what changes, if any, he'll make. "I will take the next four months to talk to people and consider ideas...