Word: crypticisms
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...letters to Nazneen. This hoary device undermines what might have been a more interesting tale: unlike Nazneen, Hasina's life is full of event - she runs away from home to marry, then flees her abusive husband and becomes a prostitute. But her letters, while long on uninteresting detail, are cryptic on the tragedies of her life. And for some reason Hasina's letters, translated from Bengali, are presented in absurdly ungrammatical English; but when Nazneen, who has no more education than her sister, composes a reply, it's in flawless, if simple, prose. A large chunk of the middle...
...first annual letter, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby left his colleagues with a cryptic message—Xing yuan zi er, deng...
...color-coded threat gauge to a level of high orange? In the past two weeks, al-Qaeda has orchestrated a string of suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco. But it wasn't those attacks alone that prompted the heightened alert. Intelligence gathered weeks ago--including intercepted communications with cryptic references to upcoming "weddings"--indicated that Osama bin Laden's minions had entered an "operational phase." The continuing chatter suggests that al-Qaeda may soon turn its attention to the West again. Sources tell TIME that some of the group's agents are annoyed that the latest attacks took...
...fans over those of Fred ("Agreeance") Durst and Korn's Jonathan Davis--well, sure, he's the T.S. Eliot of rock's special school. But if you're not grading on a curve, it's hard to see what the fuss is about. Moreno's wordplay is certainly cryptic enough--"Yeah if you'd like that we can ride on a blackhorse/A great new wave Hesperian deathhorse," he screams on the thrashfest When Girls Telephone Boys--but the songs still seem to be about psychic injuries and the people who caused them. It's territory that has been covered...
...fans over those of Fred ("Agreeance") Durst and Korn's Jonathan Davis - well, sure, he's the T.S. Eliot of rock's special school. But if you're not grading on a curve, it's hard to see what the fuss is about. Moreno's wordplay is certainly cryptic enough - "Yeah if you'd like that we can ride on a blackhorse/ A great new wave Hesperian deathhorse," he screams on the thrashfest When Girls Telephone Boys - but the songs still seem to be about psychic injuries and the people who caused them. It's territory that has been covered...