Word: crypticness
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...best way to present a man's life, not as it is but as it is remembered, and to cue us to recognize that a father's, a mother's, a sibling's love is a precious, imperiled gift. The movie is as complex as a cryptic crossword, and as direct as Celestin's greeting when Thomas comes to visit his retarded brother: "You're here. I'm happy...
...will duel it out this week in the impossible-to-predict South Dakota primary. Kerrey remains the far more intriguing candidate, both in his potential electability and in his still evolving efforts to define himself. Voters like Kerrey, but they do not understand him, especially when he makes such cryptic comments as "I know what it is like to be alone, and I'll tell you when I'm President there won't be a single person who will feel alone." Moreover, he cannot seem to explain how to connect the dots in his shadowy vision of "fundamental change...
...actress in Moment to Moment, Daena Giardella, improvises the entire show. Even though the program claims that the play is Giardella's commentary on life, her cryptic commentary makes no sense. In the first scene, two musicians play the drums and an organ for about ten minutes. They succeed only in lulling the audience to sleep...
Bassist Steve Kilbey, singing in a voice that alternates between warm and lifeless, tells the tale of a young Brit who takes up the White Man's Burden and travels to a distant land where "the natives have pierced teeth." When he returns home, he receives a cryptic message from the natives, which is read aloud at the song's climax. The message is a series of contradictions, following this pattern: "you equals me/ the land equals the sea/ an enemy equals an adorer/ but priest equals aura...
...charred piece of shirt, a shred of green plastic the size of a fingernail, the letters MEBO and a cryptic diary entry. Those were the clues that finally unlocked a three-year-old mystery: Who planted the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, just before Christmas in 1988, killing all 259 people aboard and 11 more on the ground? The answer writ small, according to indictments issued last week in Washington and Scotland, is two Libyan intelligence officials: Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. They allegedly fabricated the bomb in Malta, packed...