Word: murk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murk of their of post-Cold War relationship, it would be remiss of both Washington and Moscow?s intelligence services not to keep tabs on the other's military - after all, they remain potential long-term adversaries in a variety of scenarios. Tit-for-tat arrests and expulsions, however, are the melodramatics of a past era. These days U.S. and Russian intelligence services actually work closely together on issues such as terrorism and money laundering, and a quiet word or a discreet expulsion might have sufficed if, indeed, there was espionage under way. But that would be to miss...
...fact, these albums can be seen as the darker, bastard children of New Wave music. The few songs to emerge from the murk are lifted directly from the 1980's. Holiday's "In My Car" is reminiscent of New Wave bands like Yaz, and "Sad Little Moon" contains beats and a background taken from pop radio of the aforementioned decade. Additionally, a strong Men Without Hats (circa 1986) influence can be discerned on Tomorrow's "Technical...
...three words: no, yes, maybe. The X-Files, directed by series veteran Rob Bowman, looks damned handsome under the big-screen magnifying glass, with a rapturous clarity of golden and dark hues replacing the enveloping murk of the series. The two stars smartly fill their close-ups: David Duchovny (Mulder) adds a bit of cowboy swagger to his Prince of Dweebs intensity, while Gillian Anderson (as Mulder's skeptical partner Scully) radiates a '40s-style pensiveness that alchemizes glum into glam. The characters' devotion to each other--a caring that stops tantalizingly short of sexuality--constitutes one of the great...
...Deane's narrative seems so plausible because he immerses the reader in all the murk and fog that his narrator experiences. The book is a slow starter, because all the ignorance and bafflement the boy would naturally feel in his extreme youth are certainly shared by the unwitting reader, who must view the store through the narrator's skewed vision...
...which of them was telling the truth, became a litmus test for several generations, a marker not only of political sympathies but also of intellectual class and sensibility. Hiss and Chambers were the cold war's Mozart and Salieri, and their mysteries were multilayered. If you went below the murk of espionage and infiltration and double lives--a subject fascinating in itself--you penetrated to the deeper strangeness of the two men's psychologies and, yet deeper, to the disconcerting affinities...