Word: crypticisms
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Terry Aladjem, a lecturer in Social Studies whose students sometimes visit prisons to complete research, wrote in an e-mail that “it’s hard to comment on this because the process is so cryptic and idiosyncratic...
...idea of finally contacting the man who had reached out to me so many times, I asked an Arabic-speaking friend to call and inquire after the doctor. The secretary informed us that Dr. Ali is currently is taking a few months off. Until he comes back, his cryptic messages must suffice. “fw: Honey & Cineman cures..??!.....!!!!” he wrote the other day. But cures what, Ali? Cures heartache and half the world’s distance? “FW: HABIBI AND CO. RETURNS?!” he wrote, a few hours later...
...pressed his own claim to the throne. But a popular myth began circulating after his death in 1851 that Haiti-born Audubon, the illegitimate son of a French sailor and a maidservant, had actually been the lost dauphin in disguise. Hints of Audubon's royal identity supposedly appear in cryptic entries in his notebooks...
...style will leave you with your mouth agape, terrified in a way you’ve never been before. The film tells the story of the eponymous, widely publicized serial killer who terrorized the California Bay Area during the 1970’s with a series of random killings, cryptic letters, and puzzling ciphers. The film is shot from the point of view of journalists, detectives, and members of the general populace, as well as a young political cartoonist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. The true story of the Zodiac Killer is a frightening and horrible one, but the film...
Long before making a name for himself as a director with his disconcertingly dark vision and cryptic storytelling style, the 61-year-old Lynch was an artist. After spending his childhood and teen years painting and sketching, Lynch enrolled to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1965, where his interest then turned to the moving image...