Word: enigma
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...spring down in Nashville. There is music of anger (Steve Earle) and oddness (Lyle Lovett), music full of craft and winning ways like the tunes on a Randy Travis album. But, with the exception of the wondrous O'Kanes, the sounds in the country air do not abound with enigma. Country has traditionally run to chill depths, though. When Patsy Cline sang Walking After Midnight, she found a lonesomeness whose locus was closer to the soul than the heart. When the Cowboy Junkies cover Cline's tune on their just released RCA album, The Trinity Session, they bring something extra...
Raisa. Even in this semienlightened age, prominent women are somehow reduced to first names: Maggie, Cory, Nancy. Yet, despite her visibility, Raisa Gorbachev remains a riddle inside an enigma wrapped in sable. Is she the witty, cosmopolitan muse of glasnost, as some Westerners who have met her suggest? Or is she a hard-line ideologue, as others report? At a dinner with ^ the Reagans during the 1985 Geneva summit, Raisa launched into a lengthy and pedantic monologue on Soviet policy. After the Gorbachevs left, Nancy Reagan may have spoken for the other guests when she fumed, within hearing of then...
...LORDS: BASED ON A TRUE STORY (Enigma). Tough but graceful rock from a New York City-based band. No song has ever caught better than Cheyenne the hopeless romance of a city boy's vision of wide-open spaces...
Meanwhile, Bingham was becoming less of an enigma. With under six minutes remaining in the period, Joslin, who was leading the next charge up the ice, was stripped of the puck at the left-wing boards. But the frozen disc skipped to Sasner who redirected it past Bingham...
Even the nomenclature is open to debate. Some "mysteries" contain no puzzle or enigma. In many modern "detective" stories there is no true detective. What the French call a roman policier may not actually include the police. The British surmount the problem by calling the genre crime fiction. Perhaps the crime story is like pornography in Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's oft-cited formulation: impossible to define but unmistakable in its effects...