Word: crypticisms
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...that, Papa?" It is a poignant query, a heroic response, especially since the speaker is not only this Little Man but also Tarkovsky -- a man who has virtually offered up his life in the sacrifice to make, not good movies, but great films. In The Sacrifice, the cryptic Tarkovsky style helps create a towering cathedral...
Peretz did not give his readers the benefit of any of the relevant facts about Bachrach. He merely asked them to accept his cryptic condemnation on faith. (It's hard to imagine any decent editor letting a writer get away with this sort of ipse dixit, but I guess the owner of a magazine doesn't have to submit to the usual red pencil...
...protesting phone call. "Captain Midnight," an outraged consumer of the space age, took more daring action. In a sneak attack made just after midnight on Sunday of last week, the self- appointed video avenger broke into an HBO presentation of the movie The Falcon and the Snowman with a cryptic message: GOODEVENING HBO FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT. $12.95 A MONTH? NO WAY! (SHOWTIME/ THE MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE...
...from a jilted lover ("Everyone tells me I'll get over it . . . but how could they ever begin to know how much I loved you?"), a modified zinger to get a friend to back off ("I want to please you, but first I have to please myself"), and a cryptic note aimed at intimates who apparently intend to conduct the rest of their relationship over the phone ("More than anything, it's the eye contact I'll miss...
...talk, attended by about 50 undergraduates at Phillips Brooks House, was sponsored by an organization with the cryptic name, the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles...