Word: crypticness
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...among the faculty and students who were at the University during the 13 days of the Cuban Missile Crisis recall the Soviets' singling out Harvard in official propaganda. Most recollect a campus just as confused and frightened as the rest of the country by the blur of cryptic news reports: U.S. blockade, 80 million potential American victims, rockets in Turkey, the threat to Berlin...
...give their characters the magnetism Williams and Lithgow create. Garp's education, which occupies the first part of the film, gets the story off to a sluggish start because the scenes focus on Jenny Fields, whose character is underdeveloped in the film and whose eccentric behavior is thus cryptic...
...becomes apparent, vaguely, that the action consists of Claude's dilemma over what to do about getting drafted while various other characters worry about getting laid. But the dialogue is so sparse and cryptic that it's not clear until the final scene that Claude had been torn all along between conforming and resisting, rather than merely trying to decide how best to evade Uncle Sam. When he marches off to Southeast Asia, presumably to die for an empty cause, confusion overshadows the intended irony. Lost also are the characterizations of several of the more prominent female roles, especially those...
...detector, ultraviolet and infra-red sensors for gauging the tracks of enemy missiles, and a space sextant that will enable satellites, or even the shuttle, to navigate without guidance from earth. During the last flight, the only references to the top-secret devices came in the form of cryptic commands to the astronauts from the Air Force Satellite Control Facility in Sunnyvale, Calif. ("Switch 3-A to full auto. Bay 1 to zebra plus 3"). NASA's new security consciousness represents a sharp break with its traditional openness about space activities. It also reflects the Administration's concern...
...album ends as the concerts did, with a rather hokey taped excerpt from Jim Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner." The message in person was. "No encore, but isn't this a funny cryptic way of ending the show?" Reassuring, however, is Jagger's last line before the distorted guitar begins. "Thank yew..See yew next year--bah bah!" Gray hair and all, that would be nice...