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...supreme compliment. It implies an ability to move the reader by sheer merits of style, by the sheer force of the words and their arrangement on the page. These two stanzas from the 1936 poem "Cascado" are forceful and by necessity, that is Beckett's necessity, sufficiently cryptic...
...bland scenes that dwell on Hellman's love affair with Writer Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards) are as cryptic as they are irrelevant. Meanwhile, other poorly delineated supporting characters prance around without apparent purpose...
...Vance and Gromyko's most productive session to date, but their public statements were cautious, even cryptic. After one session, for instance, the Soviet diplomat said to newsmen at the State Department: "We have waded into the stream, but we haven't walked out of it yet because there are lots of rocks. I would like to urge all of you to display some patience." To which Vance added: "Until we get to the other side of the shore, I don't have much to say." At meeting's end, both sides sounded slightly more optimistic...
...might have happened if Oswald had lived to stand trial. The first half dwells prosaically on the accused assassin's marital problems, his sojourn in Russia and his activities just prior to Nov. 22, 1963. Though Star John Pleshette creates an intriguingly neurotic Oswald, the man remains a cryptic figure. The trial itself, which dominates Part Two, is-well -trying, with fictional lawyers (played bombastically by Lome Greene and Ben Gazzara) wrangling endlessly over their case's voluminous ballistics evidence, Perry Mason-style...
...Justice Department spokesman said earlier this week that no announcements on the matter would be forthcoming for yet another seven days. But before Richard Helms begins to think he may never breathe the open air of a U.S. District courtroom, he might consider one of Griffin Bell's more cryptic comments. A Washington reporter took Bell aside after the attorney general announced the 32-count indictment against South Korean businessman Tongsun Park and asked him if Justice planned to prosecute Helms. Bell replied, "It seems to be the season...