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Bainbridge's spare style ensures that her work is entirely free of sentimentality or melodrama. What she doesn't say becomes almost more important than what she does; readers are left to decipher the twisted relationships of the characters--the fact that Myrtle willingly bears George's children because his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mistress of Her Domain | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

Thankfully, Sondheim gives audiences a guide to understanding A Little Night Music right from the beginning. The wheelchair-bound matron Leonora Armfeldt (Lucy MacPhail '01) explains to her granddaughter (Kari Gauksheim '01) that people fall into three categories: the young, the fools and the old. MacPhail does a wonderful job...

Author: By Stephen G. Henry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Perplexing Play on Bergman; Perpetual Twilignt of a Swedish Summer | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

Fortunately, my roommate from New York was around to help me decipher the mystery of pitches, hits, low fastballs, line drives and home runs. But I would have understood the problem more quickly had baseball not been involved.

Author: By Radu Ban, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 11/4/1998 | See Source »

Same deal with learning to read defenses, says Madden, the TV commentator and ex-coach. The NFL's constantly evolving defenses are tougher to decipher than tax forms, and the consensus in jockdom is that quarterbacking is the hardest thing to do in all of sports, right after remembering where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rookies Under Siege | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

Encryption converts data into a locked or 'ciphertext' version. In order to decipher the data, a key is needed. The quality of an encryption key is measured in bits. The more bits, the merrier. The strongest commercially available encryption is currently 128 bits, (although there is some insane company that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARATUNDE R. THURSTON'S TechTalk | 9/29/1998 | See Source »

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