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After several such rattling incidents, I asked Clark, who had been such an agreeable deputy to me at the State Department, what was going on. Clark, drained of his old good fellowship, gave me a cryptic answer. "You've won a lot of battles in this Administration, Al," he said, "but you'd better understand that from now on it's going to be the President's foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Haig | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...paper in a wastebasket of a hotel room Mme. Vercel once stayed in. Wandering out into a strange neighborhood, she walks a few blocks, then happens to climb a high wooden fence, behind which an announcer for a horse race happens, just at that moment, to call out the cryptic words that--surprise--happened to be scribbled on the note. This happens again and again; the movie, in fact, stops just short of producing the name of the murderer as a cerealbox prize. Consequently, Vercel and company's efforts become redundant at best. Emphatically cardboard, the characters, who constantly mouth...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: No Thrills | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...later scene, the Meyrands are posing for baby Bernard's baptismal picture when Helene herself gets confused about her identity. Near the photograph session, a group of schoolchildren is playing. Suddenly, a teacher calls out "Helene" to one of them and Helene-Patricia automatically swirls around. Pierre casts a cryptic stare...

Author: By Hanne-marie Majala, | Title: Harlequin Romance | 11/15/1983 | See Source »

...that others should but do not feel until she becomes a ravening albino panther, be heading animals and humans alike. These surreal people do not simply stand for such concepts as overpopulation or guilt; they also take their places in what the au thor calls "the infinitely rich and cryptic texture of human life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Passage to Pakistan | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...what does that cryptic phrase signify? Presumably, the athletic-looking fellow wearing it must either have inherited the valuable garment or have taken a leave of absence; for the explanation, let's go back to one of the Crimson's most miserable Saturdays, October...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: It's Another Must-Win for Big Red As High-Flying Crimson Visits Cornell | 10/8/1983 | See Source »

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