Word: cryptics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Investors who never stopped griping about the cryptic statements of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan may already be getting nostalgiac. In most relationships, brutal honesty (or transparency, as it's known in business-speak) is a double-edged sword, and never was that more apparent than in the swift reaction to Monday's candid comments by Ben Bernanke, Greenspan's relatively straight-talking succcessor at the Fed. In a speech to an international monetary conference, Bernanke took a hard stance against inflation and implied interest rates would continue to rise in order to keep inflation in check...
Dancing to the spoken word sounds more like a cryptic metaphor than an actual event. But the twenty-third annual CityStep show, entitled “Louder than Words,” intends to do just that: depict the memorable words of great leaders through the art of dance...
...Destroyer’s Rubies,” the sixth proper LP from Bejar and his stellar art-rock outfit, Destroyer, has all the things that make a typical Bejar record great: plaintive acoustic guitars, cryptic lyrics, and a heavy dose of melodrama...
...good as Bejar’s band is, his lyrics are still the centerpiece of the Destroyer experience. Bejar’s lyrics are utterly cryptic, wildly allusive, and frequently nonsensical...
...physics. Martinez has discovered an infinite class of transcendental numbers, co-discovered the largest base 7 prime in the world (which has 67,727 digits), synthesized a new liquid crystal, developed a globally bounded, nonlinear approximation/perturbation technique, and developed a graph theoretic understanding of the Somos-4 sequence. These cryptic achievements were listed in a brief biography of Martinez on the website for a summer science program called NKS Summer School.In spite of these whiz kid accomplishments, Martinez says that reversing the stereotype of a scientist as a one-dimensional “machine” with no social skills...