Word: crypticisms
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...telephone interview earlier this month,Chafin would neither confirm nor deny hiscandidacy for police chief. He would only give asomewhat cryptic response: "[Harvard is] a greatinstitution; it had a good department there when Iwas chief...
...proved to be a bomb outside a computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah, and helped police produce a composite sketch of a white man, now in his 40s, about 6 ft. tall, with light hair, a moustache and glasses. Nearly two years ago, the bomber sent a brief, cryptic note to the Times in which he described himself only as an "anarchist." Besides the sketch of the Unabomber and his letters, just about the only clues are the locations of his attacks, the identities of his targets and the fragments of his trademark bombs...
...German short, "Passage," (the above, of course, being an American creation) moves poetically through an alternately icy, snowy and watery landscape. Two black figures wordlessly negotiate the terrian with inky fluidity and cryptic relatedness. Their quest, timeless in its way as the dirdy birdy's endless mooning, communicates itself perfectly through the spare ink and paper rendtion...
...creating the atmosphere of alienation and strain, Matteau initially relies on a kind of Beckett-like taciturnity that is only occasionally successful. The way the characters repeat and echo one another's short, cryptic statements--"I'm tapped out," "I can't"--is intended to be disturbing but the rhythm of these sections is off, often falling into a singsong that destroys the intended effect. The style is further undermined by the fact that Flee's valley-girl drawl, while effective for the character, is to mindless and unsympathetic to carry the evocative overtones that this kind of dialogue obviously...
David Mamet's cryptic, Kafkaesque An Interview takes place between the Attorney (Paul Guilfoyle) and the Attendant (Gerry Becker). Theirs is an encounter between a terrier and a sphinx: lots of barking on one side, stony silence on the other. The Attorney has apparently been summoned to defend his life, and as his exasperation rises, Guilfoyle displays a wonderfully mobile range of faces: puzzlement, gloating self-assertion, crumpled resignation. If An Interview finally seems like a one-joke drama, it's dexterous enough to dispense a little wallop of spooky uneasiness...