Word: hermeticism
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Hermetic Alibi. An all-points bulletin snared the prosecutor less than an hour later in Victorville, 100 miles east of Naples, in a car headed home. He explained that he had driven his son's Volkswagen 300 miles to Las Vegas the night of the murders. At the time...
Through three days of questioning, Jack remained confident. "I'm an officer of the court," he said. "I trust in God, and I have faith in our American system of criminal justice." The police released him, after the interrogation, but the investigation went on. Last week, after 31 days...
From the moment of the fire, officials clamped a hermetic lid on the investigation. The inevitable result was a macabre harvest of reportorial speculation about the astronauts' last seconds. Quoting an unidentified "official source," the New York Times said that the three had suffered horribly as the fire spread...
They work around the globe, and of ten around the clock. Their raw materials are propaganda sheets and travelers' recollections, railroad timetables, the fragmentary increments of satellite-borne cameras. Their subject is infinitely elusive, yet hardly esoteric. It is Red China. Thanks to its China watchers, and the relatively...
As hermetic in his life as he is in his art, Cornell has kept himself and his work so aloof from the world for so long that he has become more a subject for intellectual quarterlies than for public display. But a lately revived interest in surrealism and the reappearance...