Word: crypticness
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...trying to prepare its passengers for this reduction in subway safety with large posters in subway cars that announce that the cryptic "OPTO" will soon be featured on some subway lines. The acronym OPTO is spelled in huge letters; underneath, in smaller characters, the poster informs passengers that OPTO actually stands for One Person Train Operation. Does the MTA really believe that people are so gullible that the use of an acronym written in foot high letters will convince them that this policy is desirable? What's next, posters trumpeting EDAT to prepare travelers for Extra Derailments At Night...
...same ironic vein, Sayles first has Pilar's mother call the Border Patrol upon seeing two "wetbacks" (illegal immigrants across the Rio) and then reveals through a flashback her own frightening nightwade across the river. And Sam is constantly hearing what may or may not be cryptic don't-go-there messages in the stories of those he interviews. (Never know what you might find once you get to "poking around...
Perot, as he often does, is giving mixed signals about his intentions. When he met privately with Lamm and Lamm's brother Tom, he was cryptic enough to send the siblings away with conflicting readings. Tom thought Perot could be taken at his word about preferring not to run. Richard saw a greater chance that Perot would seize the nomination...
Another alumna expressed her most negative experience in cryptic terms: "1st time sex got pregnant...
Anything could happen. Tenured faculty in love beads distributed Maoist literature in the Square; a white-haired gentleman known only as "Mr. A. Nony Mous" took countless cryptic full-page ads in The Crimson to promote a cause he called "All Students for a Goodness Society," a sectlike group of protesters from Columbia Teachers College stage a nude-in in a House laundry room...