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...news bulletin on Lebanese state radio late last week was cryptic and vague, perhaps intentionally so: Beirut judicial authorities would prosecute three of the most wanted men in America, the hijackers of TWA Flight 847. The Lebanese identified the two Shi'ite Muslims who seized Flight 847 and murdered U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem as Ahmed Gharbiyeh and Ali Youness. The third man, Ali Atwa, failed to board the plane in Greece, but joined the other two hijackers in Algiers after the Athens government released him in exchange for Greek hostages on board the Boeing...
Like many other students during Mitchell’s lectures last year, I would often be cast adrift by a string of cryptic references just to be hooked again with an engaging cinematic argument...
...night began with “The Unanswered Question,” a short piece by Charles Ives. Though today Ives is widely regarded as the grandfather of American classical music, his contemporaries considered his music cryptic and highly avant-garde...
Instead of living in the shadow of their early fame, the four hip New Yorkers have brightened the paradoxically dark synthesized instrumental beats and cryptic lyrics of Turn On The Bright Lights. This evolution became tangible in concert as they progressed backwards, from new album to old, slowly speckling in songs from Bright Lights as Antics faded into the distance...
...explicit subject material, I heartily reject the claim that Oasis is wallowing in British pastoralism—“She’s Electric,” “Married with Children,” and a handful of others fit the bill, but overwhelmingly the semi-cryptic lyrics of the Oasis canon point in the opposite direction: “Tonight, I’m a rock and roll star,” Liam sneers in the chorus of “Rock and Roll Star” (there’s a title Blur would never...