Word: enigma
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James Jesus Angleton was an enigma. With his horn-rimmed glasses, homburg hats and foppish manners, he looked more like a Cambridge don than an American , spy hunter. Yet the Idaho-born Yale graduate, who joined the Central Intelligence Agency after a wartime stint in the Office of Strategic Services, had a flair for global intrigue and office politics that propelled him into the CIA's upper echelons. During his 20-year tenure as head of counterintelligence at the height of the cold war, Angleton hamstrung the agency with a paranoiac mole hunt that led him to ignore crucial leads...
...from the Marquis de Sade delivered in a breathless whisper? Only the most popular dance music in Europe. Sadeness is currently a No. 1 hit in 13 countries and is stealing the show at cutting-edge discos in the U.S. Romanian-born producer Michael Cretu calls his odd creation Enigma music. Cretu claims the ancient music of the Catholic Church -- "a rather mysterious and absolutely paradoxical club" -- provides the perfect companion to De Sade's sensualist prose...
...music remains the same: music the public truly wants in an acceptable package. So what if the closest Vanilla Ice came to the Florida ghettos was watching reruns of "Miami Vice"? His CDs weren't bought to trace his life--they were bought for the music associated with the enigma called "Vanilla Ice." Likewise, Milli Vanilli albums weren't purchased for overgrown braids in biker shorts, but for the music associated with that image...
Freud, like everyone else, forgot to ask the second question: What do men really want? His omission may reflect the male fascination with the enigma of woman over the mystery of man. She owns the center of his imagination, while the fate of man works the margins. Perhaps this is why so many men have taken the Mafia oath of silence about their hopes and fears. Strong and silent remain de rigueur...
...with them after meeting General Wojciech Jaruzelski. It is also the framed portrait that Poland's President, who last week announced his willingness to step down, will bequeath to the nation. Easily his country's most controversial postwar political figure, Jaruzelski, 67, will leave office even more of an enigma than when he first came to power nearly a decade...