| 单词 | cipher |
| 例句 | “This is the cipher key I used. Decoded, my message reads Royal Fungus.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For their secret language, they had decided on a substitution cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Monday marked the third week of Mr. Quisling’s cipher challenge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The more steps a cipher had, the more time it took to encrypt. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z James hastily slid his binder over his cipher pages before clamping a hand on the book to tug it back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Anything that looked urgent “was telegraphed in cipher to the Pacific Coast. If not of immediate importance it was forwarded by air mail.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A simple cipher might replace every letter with a number, so that A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, and so on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Exactly. A cipher that tastes delicious on any sandwich.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For Elizebeth and her team, most of these ciphers were easy to break—and once they were broken, even a trainee code breaker could read other messages sent using the same system. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But three of the number can read: none write or cipher. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “But she had to know she couldn’t win a homework pass with your cipher.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For words that did not have a number code, Tallmadge gave his agents a cipher. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern of those letters can help you break the cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Her brother talking about prioritizing his own interests over hers wasn’t that different from her prioritizing Mr. Griswold’s game over the cipher challenge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Book ciphers are easy to read if you know the book and the system of encryption. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They each submitted ciphers, and James felt great about his chances this week. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Encrypted with machines, these ciphers were so complex that it could take months or even years to figure out how a single type of machine worked. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A rail fence cipher is a type of transposition cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Before encryption machines came along, people had to compose their own ciphers, writing them out letter by letter. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Your Baconian cipher would have been broken anyway,” Emily said as James held the stack of papers behind him, hovering over his wide-open backpack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Emily sighed, frustrated with the cipher and frustrated with her dad for breaking her concentration. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This was a process that involved lining up messages to detect new patterns that could unlock the cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Davis cracked Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian ciphers during World War II. Later, she served in the NSA, working on Russian intercepts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Known as machine ciphers, these encryptions also had fewer mistakes, since a machine could process millions of letters without a single error. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Your Baconian cipher would have been broken anyway,” Emily said as James held the stack of papers behind him, hovering over his wide-open backpack. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For their secret language, they had decided on a substitution cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I brought a makeup cipher for yesterday,” he announced to Mr. Quisling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Bacon’s cipher is also called the biliteral cipher, meaning that it uses two letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The original cipher was written at the top of the page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Chronicler nodded solemnly, trying to imagine the mind that could break apart his cipher in a piece of an hour. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t matter anyway. What matters now is that soon we deliver Her Royal Fungus with the cipher of doom. What an awesome day, huh?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The Nazis would be angry with Hellmuth, but they would continue to trust their cipher machines—and the Allies could go on milking Enigma. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Actually, I’m looking for books about ciphers or making up codes,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There the guests were divided into teams, then given cipher messages that told them where to seek out the next course. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z While William’s rail fence cipher is easy to read, transposition ciphers can get much more complex. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Class is almost over. Are you going to collect ciphers for the week?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Be prepared to explain your cipher for the class if it goes unbroken, in order to prove it’s validly constructed.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Then there were the Beale ciphers, which claimed to lead to a lost treasure in Virginia. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Their meeting was over and on top of everything else, she hadn’t even gotten help with the Maltese Falcon cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All James said was, “I recognized the symbols from one of my cipher books. I was happy to help. Sometimes two eyes are better than one.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I know it had something to do with her lying ’bout her baby loving me so much, something that both of us knowed waren’t true, but I still couldn’t cipher what it meant. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z After learning about the challenge, the school librarian assembled a cart of books related to ciphers and codes and made a temporary “no checkout” rule for them, to ensure they stayed available for everyone’s use. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “For this week only, I will allow you to submit a different cipher. But if there is even the slightest suggestion that one of you has cheated, you’ll be disqualified from the challenge completely.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She would send Babbage a message and ask if he or she wanted to meet up at school to talk ciphers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I know this cipher, Ms. Fernandez. And I know it’s not yours.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Cipher divided by cipher is naught,’’ he wrote. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Overlooked for almost fifty years, that scrawl is like the key to a cipher, unlocking a hidden layer of Elizebeth’s inner life. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “For this week only, I will allow you to submit a different cipher. But if there is even the slightest suggestion that one of you has cheated, you’ll be disqualified from the challenge completely.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling gave an approving nod and distributed James’s cipher to the class. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Unlike a substitution cipher, it doesn’t replace any of the letters in the original message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Soon she was solving ciphers for the Coast Guard “in emergencies.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Her brother talking about prioritizing his own interests over hers wasn’t that different from her prioritizing Mr. Griswold’s game over the cipher challenge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Julius Caesar developed one of the earliest substitution ciphers,” Mr. Quisling said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The original cipher was written at the top of the page. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z At the top of a fresh page, she carefully recopied the cipher she’d printed from the Book Scavenger website a few days ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z By then, you might guess that you’re typing on a very sophisticated cipher machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For the clue, she looked up that old language Maddie had used for the cipher challenge—Ogham—and used it to write out directions to an imaginary bench in a park. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It turns out that pairs are the key to the cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The only other cipher expert she could think of besides James was Mr. Quisling, and there was no way she would ask for his help, either. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The Friedmans also housed some of their own papers in the library, as well as various cipher machines and coding devices. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At the top of a fresh page, she carefully recopied the cipher she’d printed from the Book Scavenger website a few days ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If Emily hadn’t just sat next to James at lunch and listened to him break down his new cipher and explain how it worked, she might be swayed by Maddie’s performance. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “You remember the last cipher, don’t you? I may need help remembering the whole thing.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In time, the Americans managed to "strip" the cipher completely from a group of Soviet cables. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The room remained silent, and Mr. Quisling said,“Mr. Lee, your cipher has survived the week. Congratulations on winning your first homework pass.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Then in their cipher language James wrote Now! and many things happened at once: Emily threw her water at Mr. Remora, getting the American Revolution books wet in the process. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Using her and James’s secret code, she wrote out her plan, but made an effort to act like she was trying to recall the pretend cipher she was conjuring up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Emily sighed, frustrated with the cipher and frustrated with her dad for breaking her concentration. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z James knew from keyboarding class that the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” used every letter in the alphabet, so they made that their cipher key. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was a weakness in the system, and it helped Elizebeth break the cipher layer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z By 1920, he was heading up research into codes and ciphers for the Signal Corps, the Army unit in charge of communications. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Would you—or Steve—please illuminate for the class how your cipher works?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “So ciphering and grammar make people crazy,” I said, taking care to phrase it as a statement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Using her and James’s secret code, she wrote out her plan, but made an effort to act like she was trying to recall the pretend cipher she was conjuring up. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Yesterday me, Wesley, and Sterling got up to do a cipher for Open Mike Friday and here come Steve, jumping up to join us. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a routine that worked well until February 1939, when Japan introduced the Type B cipher machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z James knew from keyboarding class that the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” used every letter in the alphabet, so they made that their cipher key. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She hadn’t helped him with the cipher challenge at all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The sentence didn’t strike her as being a cipher since it was made up of actual words, not a garbled mix of letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Soon the rumrunners were transmitting their messages in codes and ciphers that Root could not break. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “It’s an alphabet from the Dark Ages called Ogham. I found it when I was researching ciphers online. Look, I printed out a copy.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He could take apart a cipher, piece by piece, as if it were a machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But that couldn’t work, because the third and fifth letters were the same according to the cipher, and in Pigpen those letters were g and e. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It made sense, really, since his story “The Gold-Bug” included ciphers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Well, maybe we should focus on Mr. Quisling’s cipher challenge for a little bit instead. Admit it—wouldn’t it make your day to see Her Royal Fungus with an official mushroom-top hairdo? Besides...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This was the first step of what was known as Procedure 40, a cipher used by spies broadcasting from fascist Spain. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Anyway, what if she and Babbage really hit it off talking about ciphers? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The Nazi spies in South America might be using relatively simple codes and ciphers, but reading their messages still required focus and care. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The room remained silent, and Mr. Quisling said,“Mr. Lee, your cipher has survived the week. Congratulations on winning your first homework pass.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling turned the cipher around to study it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But in 1942, those spies were using the same straightforward ciphers over and over again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As a child, he had loved Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug,” a tale about a cipher that leads to buried treasure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z William and his team spent the next week working hard—“almost day and night,” he later said, trying to wedge open the crack in the cipher that Gene Grotjan had found. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The first week of Mr. Quisling’s challenge was a wash, since everyone’s submitted ciphers had been broken. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In addition, one of the cipher rings had twenty-seven spaces, instead of the usual twenty-six. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Anyway, what if she and Babbage really hit it off talking about ciphers? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was where all her ideas for puzzles and ciphers and hiding books exploded on the page, and where she tried to work out the clues for the books she was hunting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling turned the cipher around to study it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This was a clever cipher, yet it was only the first step of Procedure 40. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “He used a substitution cipher to encrypt his message as a backup, in case you figured out the scytale. Right?” she asked James. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She would send Babbage a message and ask if he or she wanted to meet up at school to talk ciphers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Their meeting was over and on top of everything else, she hadn’t even gotten help with the Maltese Falcon cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I like what you had to say, Tyrone. And I loved your cipher,” he told me. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But what ciphers and codes had been used? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Such fatalism, however, was only one layer of the cipher that was Elizebeth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “A cipher,” he underlined the word, “is when you substitute individual letters with other letters, numbers, or symbols.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It made sense, really, since his story “The Gold-Bug” included ciphers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Maddie stole the cipher key, too. Once you know how a cipher works, it’s easy to break.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was as if each were a cipher to which the other had the key. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z That afternoon in social studies, Mr. Quisling asked for any final attempts to break James’s cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe all the ciphers were broken. This is going to be way harder than I thought. I don’t want to shave off Steve.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was where all her ideas for puzzles and ciphers and hiding books exploded on the page, and where she tried to work out the clues for the books she was hunting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Would you—or Steve—please illuminate for the class how your cipher works?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I axed Syl, “So you learnt how to do ciphering in that school?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Handlers and spies were divided into groups called circuits, with each circuit using its own ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the contrary, she had demonstrated “the simplest of all ciphers.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He held Maddie’s cipher sheet in front of him as they walked:“I’ll be able to crack this in no time,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Much of the dialogue that transpired between Harris and me was eerily similar to the dialogue between Adams and the cipher. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z James dropped his pen on the cipher work and tipped his chair back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In everyday life, we often refer to both ciphers and codes as “codes” and to the people who crack them as “code breakers.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In addition, the machine encrypted six letters of the alphabet with one cipher, then used an entirely different cipher for the other twenty. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But beware—a simple cipher is easy for an expert to break! The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On a summer evening back in 1939, William had mentioned that his boss had talked to him about the Japanese cipher team. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If Emily hadn’t just sat next to James at lunch and listened to him break down his new cipher and explain how it worked, she might be swayed by Maddie’s performance. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The only subjects that came easily were those taught by Writing Mistress: composition and ciphering. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Others offered her “unbreakable” coding and cipher systems—usually for a high price. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was hidden deep inside the embassy walls and could be entered only through an unmarked door sealed with a cipher lock. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Army saddled him with writing an official account of their wartime code and cipher operations—“all the histories and data and things—the final say.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe all the ciphers were broken. This is going to be way harder than I thought. I don’t want to shave off Steve.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Yet it does—and the message is encrypted in Bacon's cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In a cipher, each letter in a message is replaced by another letter or a number. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is the cipher key I used. Decoded, my message reads Royal Fungus.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z After learning about the challenge, the school librarian assembled a cart of books related to ciphers and codes and made a temporary “no checkout” rule for them, to ensure they stayed available for everyone’s use. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The man who invented Bacon’s cipher was Sir Francis Bacon, an English scientist and statesman who lived in Shakespeare’s day. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Emily knew the cipher challenge would be a touchy subject after Maddie had ruined all his hard work, so she tried to distract him by talking about Mr. Griswold’s latest clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z You can also take Bacon’s cipher and express it using 0 for a and 1 for b. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Root gave much of the credit for her success to William, noting that she had both “the services of her distinguished husband” and his “secret methods of solving ciphers.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “By the end of the war, I was more or less known as a military cipher expert,” she wrote, “but I was better known as the wife of my husband.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They took books, manuals, and index cards, many of them dealing with old ciphers from World War I and the 1920s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z That afternoon in social studies, Mr. Quisling asked for any final attempts to break James’s cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z One story, headed “Class in Cryptology,” stated that Elizebeth “had conducted a class in solving code messages,” showing “how experts translate into plain language the most complex of code and cipher.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But Elizebeth was all business as she explained that it meant she was an expert in breaking secret code and cipher systems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Nearly everyone had dropped out by now, having decided that doing homework would be easier than the work of creating and breaking the class ciphers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “You should be mad at me. It was stupid to pass the note in the first place. At least this cipher challenge sounds cool.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Zero was so important to the new set of numbers that people started calling all numbers ciphers, which gave the French their term chiffre, digit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As she later noted, one-time pad systems are “really the only unbreakable cipher in existence.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They needed an expert on codes and ciphers right away—and they wanted to hire Elizebeth. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It had been three weeks since a strange boy made her laugh and then solved her cipher when she wasn’t looking. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z By cracking your enemy’s codes and ciphers, you could learn their military secrets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Through no fault of her own, she was no longer his equal with codes and ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “You remember the last cipher, don’t you? I may need help remembering the whole thing.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Emily knew the cipher challenge would be a touchy subject after Maddie had ruined all his hard work, so she tried to distract him by talking about Mr. Griswold’s latest clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He looked down at the page of his cipher in Kvothe’s neat handwriting. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Gallup believed that Shakespeare’s First Folio contained secret messages written in this cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s not supposed to be a phone number. Maybe it means something else. A math equation? A cipher?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But that couldn’t work, because the third and fifth letters were the same according to the cipher, and in Pigpen those letters were g and e. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z To create a simple keyword cipher, you first write out the alphabet. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On government forms, she noted at least twice that she was “co-author with William F. Friedman of numerous cipher books,” by which she meant the pamphlets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I used a type of cipher called the scytale. You take a vertical strip of paper like this, and you wrap it around a cylinder-shaped object.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But every so often, you glimpse the pure fun of ciphers and codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For the clue, she looked up that old language Maddie had used for the cipher challenge—Ogham—and used it to write out directions to an imaginary bench in a park. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He had written it in Sanskrit, which was his mother tongue, and he had encoded the even lines in the private cipher of the Emperor Augustus and the odd ones in a Lacedemonian military code. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Class is almost over. Are you going to collect ciphers for the week?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This meant that each cipher was based on an ordinary book—one that the sender and receiver both owned. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The trick, of course, is to break the cipher without the book. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In January 1917, a German diplomat named Arthur Zimmermann sent a telegram in cipher to the German ambassador in Mexico City. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The cipher was so complex that it took days to break it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With a cipher, you deal with each letter separately, switching them around or replacing them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Pigpen was another character, but what did that have to do with the cipher itself? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Much as they loved to talk about codes and ciphers, they watched their words with care. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The first week of Mr. Quisling’s challenge was a wash, since everyone’s submitted ciphers had been broken. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z No key or cipher was required for the deciphering. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Then in their cipher language James wrote Now! and many things happened at once: Emily threw her water at Mr. Remora, getting the American Revolution books wet in the process. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I brought a makeup cipher for yesterday,” he announced to Mr. Quisling. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She knew that drug lords could be just as dangerous as the rumrunning gangsters had been—and just as ingenious with their ciphers and codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On Wednesday, almost the entire social studies class submitted ciphers for Mr. Quisling’s challenge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “It’s an alphabet from the Dark Ages called Ogham. I found it when I was researching ciphers online. Look, I printed out a copy.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She was also fascinated by something called Bacon’s cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Maddie stole the cipher key, too. Once you know how a cipher works, it’s easy to break.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The top brass also remembered all too well how Yardley’s boastful book had made Japan dump its old codes and ciphers, then create much harder ones. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling never saw the Maltese Falcon cipher, but it would be easy enough for him to open The Gold-Bug, find the typos she’d marked, and put the pieces together himself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “But she had to know she couldn’t win a homework pass with your cipher.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Her gift for spotting weaknesses in codes and ciphers made her good at creating strong ones. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “He used a substitution cipher to encrypt his message as a backup, in case you figured out the scytale. Right?” she asked James. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “This fraction of which the denominator is a cipher, is termed an infinite quantity,” writes Bhaskara, a twelfth-century Indian mathematician, who tells of what happens when you add a number to 1 + 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Pigpen was another character, but what did that have to do with the cipher itself? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Barbara used a Caesar cipher, which replaces each letter with one farther along in the alphabet. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z That means that it uses many cipher alphabets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Clever. Subtle. I like it. So, you have a question about a cipher? ” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The project she had in mind was a book about Shakespeare and ciphers, like the one she had started during World War I. And Riverbank would be part of the story. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z James dropped his pen on the cipher work and tipped his chair back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But James slumped even lower when his was one of the two ciphers broken. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He was not even allowed to republish an article about literary ciphers in Edgar Allan Poe’s nineteenth-century short story “The Gold-Bug.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Bacon was interested in secrets of many kinds, including encryption, but his cipher wasn’t a typical cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She hadn’t helped him with the cipher challenge at all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Probably studying in his room or hunched over his cipher books or logic puzzles with Steve defying gravity, like a diving board of hair sticking off his head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “You should be mad at me. It was stupid to pass the note in the first place. At least this cipher challenge sounds cool.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Not only was he compiling new codes for Army use, he was also teaching cryptography to Army officers, as well as breaking ciphers and codes on demand. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z By Thursday, James had made a breakthrough with Maddie’s cipher and was back in high spirits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If he recognized his own cipher from the website, then it was a logical step to connect her to it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Be prepared to explain your cipher for the class if it goes unbroken, in order to prove it’s validly constructed.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “A cipher,” he underlined the word, “is when you substitute individual letters with other letters, numbers, or symbols.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If people wanted to learn about old codes and ciphers, why stop them? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What did surprise her was that the 650 messages used twenty-four different code and cipher systems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s not supposed to be a phone number. Maybe it means something else. A math equation? A cipher?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling never saw the Maltese Falcon cipher, but it would be easy enough for him to open The Gold-Bug, find the typos she’d marked, and put the pieces together himself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In a memo, he praised her “shrewdness in the breaking down of enemy ciphers.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Emily tried to look busy at work on the Maltese Falcon cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I used a type of cipher called the scytale. You take a vertical strip of paper like this, and you wrap it around a cylinder-shaped object.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Exactly. A cipher that tastes delicious on any sandwich.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Soon I could cipher as well as he. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z For a start, Purple didn’t use rotors, the motorized gears inside most cipher machines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Because machine ciphers were so complicated, and because they had fewer mistakes, they were hard to break. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z First, the network put them through the lower-grade cipher machine, known as a Kryha, that they had used before the Enigma arrived. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On Wednesday, almost the entire social studies class submitted ciphers for Mr. Quisling’s challenge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If he recognized his own cipher from the website, then it was a logical step to connect her to it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Julius Caesar developed one of the earliest substitution ciphers,” Mr. Quisling said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I liked ciphering all right, but I didn’t care much for spelling and studying the Bible and memorizing psalms. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Put that way, Bacon’s cipher becomes an example of binary code, the language of computers… The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z During all my months of ciphering, I had counted on selling my grain to the miller at grain prices, not to the odd farmer as cattle feed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Doesn’t matter anyway. What matters now is that soon we deliver Her Royal Fungus with the cipher of doom. What an awesome day, huh?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z All James said was, “I recognized the symbols from one of my cipher books. I was happy to help. Sometimes two eyes are better than one.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling gave an approving nod and distributed James’s cipher to the class. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But the gangsters soon fought back with a blizzard of new codes and ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z That is, it uses a single cipher alphabet that never changes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Probably studying in his room or hunched over his cipher books or logic puzzles with Steve defying gravity, like a diving board of hair sticking off his head. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z At the time, most high-level American code breakers worked for the Army and the Navy, where they focused on a handful of top-grade military and diplomatic ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Egyptian hieroglyphics are, in significant part, a simple substitution cipher. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly everyone had dropped out by now, having decided that doing homework would be easier than the work of creating and breaking the class ciphers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “I know this cipher, Ms. Fernandez. And I know it’s not yours.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In a substitution cipher, each letter of the message you want to send is swapped out for a different letter. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Known as hand ciphers, these encryptions could be very complex, which made them more secure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z James walked his cipher book back to the library cart, reading it until the very last second. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In social studies, James made a big show of looking for another missing item when Mr. Quisling collected the cipher challenge submissions. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But James slumped even lower when his was one of the two ciphers broken. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The only other cipher expert she could think of besides James was Mr. Quisling, and there was no way she would ask for his help, either. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Monday marked the third week of Mr. Quisling’s cipher challenge. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Perhaps Mr. Derby could use an assistant to help him keep his books. I can read and cipher, you know,” she added with a bit of pride. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In social studies, James made a big show of looking for another missing item when Mr. Quisling collected the cipher challenge submissions. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He held Maddie’s cipher sheet in front of him as they walked:“I’ll be able to crack this in no time,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Swiftly, they worked out that the letters were written in two different book ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The new ciphers were not as demanding as those she had cracked earlier in the war, and they did not yield much in the way of vital intelligence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z James hastily slid his binder over his cipher pages before clamping a hand on the book to tug it back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z With insight and humor, Elizebeth and William had proved, once and for all, that Shakespeare’s plays contained no ciphers or codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Well, maybe we should focus on Mr. Quisling’s cipher challenge for a little bit instead. Admit it—wouldn’t it make your day to see Her Royal Fungus with an official mushroom-top hairdo? Besides...” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Barbara put this trick to good use at summer camp, when she wrote her letters in cipher so that the camp director couldn’t read them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It had been three weeks since a strange boy made her laugh and then solved her cipher when she wasn’t looking. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z James wanted to research ciphers for Mr. Quisling’s challenge in order to come up with something super hard for others to break. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z These mixes of codes and ciphers were a headache to crack. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The first one said, “This cipher is absolutely indecipherable.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A Caesar cipher is easy to break, but not everyone is trained to spot one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Emily tried to look busy at work on the Maltese Falcon cipher. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If Enigma operators slipped up and used the same settings more than once, breaking the cipher was much easier. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Looking down each column, you will see letters that come from the same cipher alphabet. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Soon they were breaking even the toughest codes and ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Clever. Subtle. I like it. So, you have a question about a cipher? ” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z James wanted to research ciphers for Mr. Quisling’s challenge in order to come up with something super hard for others to break. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Other Western mathematicians didn’t change the word so heavily and called zero cifra, which became cipher. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z James walked his cipher book back to the library cart, reading it until the very last second. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Actually, I’m looking for books about ciphers or making up codes,” James said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z By Thursday, James had made a breakthrough with Maddie’s cipher and was back in high spirits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He then took the insights he had gained and built cipher machines for the Army that were even more secure. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I cut my eyes at Steve, betting this boy had never done a cipher in his life. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After peace was declared, however, William dared to put a short, simple cipher at the end of one of his letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They each submitted ciphers, and James felt great about his chances this week. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Despite a career that has taken him to tiny theaters and megabudget “Bond” films alike, he remains something of a cipher, a chameleon able to walk the streets of New York unrecognized and unbothered. Ben Whishaw Makes Himself at Home in New York 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z These direct address segments provide helpful insight, as Cephas Jones imbues the character with her own watchfulness, making Ashley something of a cipher. In ‘Blindspotting’ Series, Jasmine Cephas Jones Steps Into Full View 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Like two ciphers parachuted in from the future with a shining new morality, Malik's character and a doomed Jewish refugee both spoke a strange, strained language of high platitude. Rewind TV: Upstairs Downstairs; When Harvey Met Bob; Michael Jackson's Secret Hollywood; Toast 2011-01-02T00:04:01Z But even as they develop a kinship, the women themselves remain ciphers. ‘Ride or Die’ Review: Killing for Love 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z The deal was accepted, the porcelain became known as the Dragoon Vases, and the battalion took the Meissen cipher — two crossed swords — as its banner. 'The White Road' is an obsessive journey into the world of porcelain 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Vidal-Naquet sells this facile notion by keeping his protagonist a borderline cipher — even-tempered, accommodating, seemingly at peace with drifting. ‘Sauvage / Wild’ Review: A French Hustler Gets Too Close to His Work 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Rick has been a lot of different men over the past four seasons: a cipher for the disoriented viewer, an ardent optimist, a blessed peacemaker, a grief-stricken depressive, a tribal elder, a gentleman farmer. Everything You Need to Know Before Season 5 of The Walking Dead 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z It is a cultural cipher, a malleable, claimable standard of identity, innovation, and taste. You Think You Know Umami 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Master Chief is not merely stoic, he is a cipher, a puppet, an empty vessel meant to be filled with the personality of the player, no matter how foul-mouthed or belligerent. In praise of silent, stoic video game heroes 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Those who are protesting don't want to see non-whites patronised with background roles as saintly ciphers; they want them to play mainstream parts as three-dimensional protagonists in what is, after all, their story. Attempting the Impossible: why does western cinema whitewash Asian stories? 2013-01-02T13:48:00Z After the Season 3 premiere some of the contestants are still ciphers. Television Review: ?Top Chef Masters? Downsizes 2011-04-05T18:24:50Z They talked about how to draw out the character; in the book, the adults are mostly ciphers seen through Margaret’s eyes. ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’: Beloved, Banned and Finally Adapted 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “The Fugitive Heir,” Vanity Fair, 2002 In a long, insidery profile following Durst’s murder of Morris Black in Galveston, Texas, Vanity Fair explores the case so far — and the cipher at its center. Want to know more about Robert Durst? Here’s the essential long-reads list for “Jinx” fanatics 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Some contained codes, devised by Anson Stager, general manager of U.S. military telegraphs, that inserted decoy words or arbitraries into messages that were unscrambled with cipher charts. Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century: 'It's mind-boggling' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The expedition grew out of an encounter between Monty and an eccentric Finnish scholar, Valter Juvelius, who claimed he had identified ciphers in the Old Testament that showed where the ark was hidden in Jerusalem. What Happens When Everyone Is Writing the Same Book You Are? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z When completing a chapter on the proliferation of ciphers at Henry’s court, she looked up the digitized images from the “Jewellery Book,” as the collection of drawings by Holbein at the British Museum is known. Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Immediately, she recognized it as the monogram cipher of Lady Mary Wroth, a contemporary of Shakespeare’s considered England’s first female fiction writer. Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z As for Mr. Perry’s human side, it remains well hidden: he’s very good at playing the cipher. Books of The Times: In Thomas Perry?s ?Strip,? Affable Thugs, Rough Justice 2010-05-26T22:24:00Z Mr. Jan goes right into the brain of his father in search of a man who always seemed a cipher. Review: Lars Jan’s ‘The Institute of Memory (TIMe)’ Is a Search for Identity 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z But this is very much Chrissy's show; Cyril remains a cipher, a walk-on player in her story. You're Not Like Other Girls Chrissy 2010-08-22T15:37:00Z The femme fatale, like the Dead Girl, traditionally functioned as a cipher, a scrim for misogynist fantasies. Dead Girls, Female Murderers, and Megan Abbott’s Novel “Give Me Your Hand” 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z I used to think that the imbalance reflected a conventionally sentimental view of courtship, and that Rita, for all her loveliness, was a bit of a cipher, an idealized foil for the more complicated Phil. How Many More Weeks (Years)? Watching ‘Groundhog Day’ Together 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z In this new version, the kids are ciphers. 'Red Dawn': Remake is off target 2012-11-20T00:33:04Z Braganza’s work is part of what can be seen as a more feminist turn, as scholars have increasingly considered how ciphers and other forms of hidden communication preserve the lost voices of women. Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z His Tray remains something of an emotional cipher, at least until the final scene, yet his body is expressive — all ropy arms and springy legs and flashing teeth. ‘brownsville song (b-side for tray),’ at Lincoln Center 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Thompson remains more of a cipher, although it is a treat to see his imagining of Müller’s funeral, a series of dark silhouettes that evoke Jacob Lawrence and Munch. Art in Review: PAIRINGS: ?Gandy Brodie/Bob Thompson: The Ecstasy of Influence? 2011-02-17T23:27:24Z Was Brown a cipher for the true feelings of American women, who wished to do away with men altogether? Murphy Brown is coming back to TV: why America needs her more than ever 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z In his 2006 video The White and Black Minstrel Show, he appears as a 'whited-up' clown, a cipher of cultural cluelessness that inverts the grim racial caricatures of 19th century American vaudeville acts. Artist of the week 107: David Blandy 2010-09-29T15:01:00Z The richness and weight of her voice and her keen sensitivity to textual nuances lent tragic substance to a character — compromised from the beginning — who is otherwise something of a cipher. Review: Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite,’ a Rare Concert Performance in French at Caramoor 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Jordan remained something of a cipher to me: very accurate and at times very beautiful, sometimes capable of power, sometimes seeming just to be following directions. Perspective | The Met’s ‘Ring’ succeeds in spite of — and in no way supported by — a $16 million set 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z The movie’s Gareth is gutsy, but a near cipher, and the very opposite of the dashing hero who comes to the rescue. ‘Mr. Jones’ Review: Bearing Witness to Stalin’s Evil 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z With the other stevedores, none of whom is more than a cipher, Simón thinks aloud about what their labor means. Books of The Times: J. M. Coetzee’s ‘Childhood of Jesus’ Dissects a World 2013-08-28T21:20:05Z Although Sellers’s Edgar is something of a cipher in his own story, Mills and Tediashvili immediately captivate as a brother and sister overwhelmed by a forbidden infatuation. Review | Synetic Theater’s ‘The Madness of Poe’ delivers a haunting mash-up from the father of American horror 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Likewise Tracy Daugherty’s 2009 life of Donald Barthelme is accomplished, but the man at its center remains a cipher: I never quite got where all that weird brilliance came from. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z But he was also a cipher operator in the second world war: his crises of "species survival" are never innocent, always freighted with questions and ambiguity. John Wyndham: The unread bestseller 2010-12-20T16:12:31Z But it’s problematic that the three Western characters never amount to more than ciphers. Music Review: Moved by Music of the Tropics, A Composer Moves to Them 2010-10-16T01:00:00Z “I’m one who’s been driven by a hunger for respect forever, since I was the only white boy in a rap cipher battling to make a name for myself,” Mr. Baker said. Don’t Call Him Machine Gun Kelly 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z “Borges’s fiction absorbed Solar’s insightful ruminations about language with a ciphered and understated humor that characterized his mature prose and intellectual pursuits.” ‘Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges’ at Americas Society 2013-04-18T21:09:09Z His proposal for a cyclologic cryptographic machine, illustrated on the book’s last page, relies on a series of cipher wheels that make it a close cousin to Sigaba and Enigma. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z This is David's encounter with Maria, and David is a deeply annoying cipher. 'The Revisionist' has an uninspired role in need of a rewrite 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z He conveys a ferocious and absolute seriousness even when the going gets silly, and he finds the soul in each new angry-everyman cipher he is asked to play. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z Like so many other shows devoted to work amassed by individual collectors, the collector himself is a cipher. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z All her life, she insisted that anyone could understand codes and ciphers. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z For that matter, Detective Cortez ranges from inadequate to punctilious and remains a mere cipher. “Upgrade,” Reviewed: The Misguided Nostalgia Behind a Low-Budget Sci-Fi Horror Film 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z He was sharp, but he was also a cipher. Perspective | Pictures of Robert Mueller tell the story of a man who is finally free 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z And yet throughout this spotlight era, Durk has remained something of a cipher — not a household name, and still more of a cult favorite. The Many Lives of Lil Durk 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Among the most unusual objects is a Confederate cipher key, used to decode secret messages. ‘The Civil War in 50 Objects’: emblems of a bloody conflict 2013-07-11T18:49:15Z The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher. That $450 Million Leonardo? It’s No Mona Lisa. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z But CM soon discovers that X — always a cipher, and widely revered for her intensity — had been far crueler and more dangerous than she had realized. 22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z At its worst, nothing is at stake — the characters are breezy ciphers. Review: In Jonathan Lethem’s ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy,’ a Hustler’s Luck Runs Cold 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Beyond Julian, the characters are essentially interchangeable ciphers. | 'Saving Private P?rez': ?Saving Private P?rez,? Directed by Beto G?mez ? Review 2011-09-02T04:43:03Z And Oliver is worse than a cipher: he seems a jerk. Love Story 2010-06-08T21:15:00Z This might be more effective were Avinash easier to access; as it is, he is a cipher by and large. Secret conflicts shape a family in Sandip Roy's 'Don't Let Him Know' 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Christine is a cipher; even when she has a burst of emotion, it’s never entirely clear whether it’s real or calculated. Review: ‘The Girlfriend Experience,’ a Window Into Upscale Transactional Sex 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Linden's silent ruminating, which at first seemed wonderfully indicative of someone on TV actually thinking, began to just seem like silence; we knew so little about this character, she became a cipher. A former fan cools on 'The Killing' 2011-06-18T09:31:05Z One of the most famous of these codes was Bacon’s biliteral cipher. Got a secret? Learn how to hide it in code at Folger Shakespeare Library. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z She's not quite a cipher, for Smith is uncanny at alighting on the ties of the mind, gut and heart that link these two, even while Alice is married to other people. 'Three Delays': A blissfully wayward tale of impossible love, South Florida version 2010-06-09T23:48:00Z Here are some of the most notable people in history who wrote their journals using codes and ciphers. 6 historical figures who kept secret coded diaries 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Even though he remains a cipher, his surroundings are lush. Reviews of Albums From Grimes, Galactic and Tyga 2012-02-20T23:49:32Z So many of TV’s most prolific killers are stony-faced ciphers, immune to the fits and pleasures of human existence. Review: ‘Killing Eve’ Returns in Fighting Form 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z This is the first time I can think of where the focus really did turn to the victims and their families, and this cipher, this boogeyman, became less of a player in it. Deborah Norville on the Gilgo Beach murders and what happens next 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z He turns Mia into an absolute cipher, giving her nothing whatsoever to talk about. The Empty Exertions of “La La Land” 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z And Brown has said, at least, that he wants to introduce Dante's Divine Comedy to readers, though I worry it's simply because Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that Dante wrote his autobiography "in colossal cipher". Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z At the Encryption challenge, large horizontal touch screens, which look like naval charting tables, test your ability to grasp ciphers quickly. I Spy at New York’s Museum of Deception 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z For much of the season, she remained a cipher. Critic’s Notebook: ‘New Girl’ Season Finale, With Zooey Deschanel 2013-05-13T21:56:07Z As a teenage cipher, Ms. Purnell is less successful; her constant fingernail biting is supposed to convey anxiety, while she remains mostly in a sullen pout. Review: ‘Wildlike’ Pits a Teenage Girl Against the Alaskan Wilderness 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z “If he had cut that three minutes out it would have ripped the soul out of the movie, and Virginia Madsen's Maya would have been rendered a cipher.” You had me at Merlot: I forgive you Rex Pickett 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Jude is stubbornly elusive even throughout the novel’s 720 pages, less of a character than an amalgam of scars and cipher for the attention of others. ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z The Nietzsche character remains a cipher until the end. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z That protagonist, Clare, is something of a cipher to those around her — and, perhaps more significantly, to herself as well. A Noirish Narrative in Which the Self Is an Enigma, and So Is Everything Else 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The most famous exponents of the Navajo language were the 29 "code talkers" who developed an unbreakable cipher based on their language that helped Allied forces win World War Two. Disney-Pixar to translate 'Finding Nemo' film into Navajo 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The Catherine/Henry cipher came to her attention this spring, through a similar moment of serendipity. Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z It took years before anyone in government could be persuaded to take a look at the cipher. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z He did intelligence work during World War II and broke an important German radio cipher. Books of The Times: Adam Sisman?s ?Honourable Englishman,? on Hugh Trevor-Roper 2011-12-06T21:46:10Z In her penetrating and entertaining new biography, “The Master of Us All: Balenciaga, His Workrooms, His World,” Ms. Blume acknowledges that, even in his heyday, Balenciaga was something of a cipher. Books Of Style: Balenciaga’s World of Mystery: Books of Style 2013-01-26T00:03:55Z By contrast, Emmett’s sections, narrated in a close third, are as flat as the plains, largely because he’s something of a cipher, buffeted by twisters of his own making. Review | Amor Towles’s ‘The Lincoln Highway’ is a long and winding road through the hopes and failures of mid-century America 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z For the kind of person who performs unsolved murders of city workers and leaves ciphered clues for the unsuspecting police, this is the most exciting part of the whole game. Can Cardi B and Bernie Sanders fix politics? Er … 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Nor is he an emotionless cipher with no inner life. The Trouble With Autism in Novels 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z It's not just the writing that has proven impossible to crack: some of the drawings are ciphers, too. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Jenner has become the cipher through which media outlets prove how modern they are, lauding everything she does as “inspirational”, “amazing”, and all the other buzzwords of the BuzzFeed generation. Hadley Freeman: the trouble with Caitlyn Jenner 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z The Face and i-D photographers took on the baton, moulding themselves as ciphers of contemporary culture, further blurring the boundaries of photo-reportage, portraiture and fashion. Terence Donovan Fashion edited by Diana Donovan and David Hillman – review 2012-12-16T00:05:04Z She and William taught their daughter how to use cipher, and she would write them cipher letters from summer camp. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Shakespeare Scholar Turned Nazi Hunter 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z But mostly, the South Asian women in these shows were just friend-zoned; bad, boring dates; or utter ciphers. ‘The Mindy Project’ was never really woke. But at least it starred a South Asian woman 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z They learned to recognize ciphers — where one letter is substituted for another letter or number — and to interpret “additives,” extra numbers thrown in to stump prying eyes. The Women Who Helped America Crack Axis Codes 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z On the rare occasions that he did so, he adopted another pseudonym or used a cipher. A Global Celebration of Design 2010-09-13T07:24:00Z The article included a long excursus on the pointlessness of looking for anagrammatic ciphers; a note revealed that the statement itself was an anagram. The Unsolvable Mysteries of the Voynich Manuscript 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z But both men are ciphers; as Patrick said of himself, "I simply am not there." Sex and Shame in Venice: Michael Fassbender Is a Real X-Man 2011-09-05T09:45:00Z It’s an exemplary trait of the film that the character of Valérie, whose work deals with the practical stuff of life, remains a cipher. “Non-Fiction,” Reviewed: A Vacuum-Sealed View of France’s Culturati 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z In the beginning of the film, the young Lynch is a quiet cipher but slowly begins to open up as he becomes a star. The Profound Silence of Marshawn Lynch 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Yet the series’s star may also be its biggest cipher. Feeling a Bit Cramped? ‘Couples Therapy’ May Look Familiar 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Most crucially, Karin, the great love of Billy’s life, remains a cipher all the way through “Carry Me.” ‘Carry Me’ review: Life and love in harrowing wartime Europe spring to life 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z A modern cipher of a man is about to get his comeuppance from a mythical divinity: Diana, the virginal huntress, the sight of whom makes men fall prey to the hounds of their own lust. Art Review: Captured: A New York Minute, or One in Havana 2011-06-09T23:00:29Z And it is in many ways a cipher, open to interpretation. National Anthem Protests, From ‘Jazzing the Banner’ to Taking a Knee 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Krystal’s a cipher — there’s not much to her beyond her single-mindedness, a weapon the plot uses to disrupt the lives of the secondary but more fully rendered male characters. Review: Kirsten Dunst Fights for Her Piece of the Pyramid Scheme 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Alford vividly evokes this murky world of codes, ciphers, invisible ink, intercepted letters, aliases, disguises, forgeries and instructions to burn after reading. The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford – review 2012-08-17T21:55:05Z To suggest that these monumental works are somehow giant ciphers for political ideology does the artist and her work a disservice. Review | At the Whitney, the monumental works of Julie Mehretu begin to stack up 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Sister Mary is as much of a cipher as the pope. HBO’s ‘The Young Pope’ is confounding, captivating and one of the most unsettling shows in years 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Luke’s first wife is a cipher, mentioned only in passing. ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 5: A Seduction 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes it’s almost too subtle: Nelly, by the end, is still something of a cipher. ‘The Invisible Woman’: a Dickens of a love affair 2014-01-23T22:31:34Z Even the farm of the title, a tumbledown homestead in his mother's native land of Sweden, is something of a cipher: remote but hardly menacing in the way Smith intends. 'The Farm' cultivates little suspense for a thriller 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z At least one industry is meeting the moment with freshly imagined anagrams, substitution ciphers and alphanumeric codes. Escape Rooms in an At-Home Era? Here’s the Key 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z But it also makes sure that these men never become ciphers. Review: An All-Star Team in the Temptations Musical ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z For a main character, though, Liz remains something of a cipher throughout the series. Witty, fast-paced 'Babylon,' set in Britain, hits home in U.S. 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z He renders one of the most nuanced characters in opera — a man of tremendous power, vulnerability, anger and confusion — a cipher. Review: ‘Don Carlos’ Finally Brings French Verdi to the Met 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Her story was sad, but she herself was a cipher. Review: In ‘The Layover,’ Strangers on a Plane and Missed Connections 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z They are not faux-furious pundits with smug grins, though, merely your standard headline ciphers. "What We Do in the Shadows" prepared us for the disbelief that met the latest Jan. 6 indictment 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z Like Draper, he becomes a cipher, a shadow of someone else’s idea of happiness. Riff: What Don Draper and Christian Grey Have in Common 2012-06-22T21:48:00Z Ms. Walker’s role, though, is somewhat of a cipher. Review: ‘Don’t Worry Baby’ and a Case of Uncertain Paternity 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z They can be ciphers for King himself in the novel. Rereading Stephen King: week two – Salem's Lot 2012-06-11T10:58:12Z He confirms this when Matsson asks Tom to "soft pitch" him on himself and Tom answers like a dutiful cipher. A devastating end to "Succession" wakes up to the truth about the Roys: "We're nothing" 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z The central character, a young woman named Bride, is little more than a cipher, and her relationship with Booker, who loves her then leaves her before loving her again, unfolds with little urgency or fire. The magic is missing in Toni Morrison's 'God Help the Child' 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z But the action, such as it is, is sclerotic and Finch a cipher whose previous life — aside from a brief flashback to his acquisition of the dog — remains almost entirely shrouded. ‘Finch’ Review: Three for the Road 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z As Jon Caramanica, of the Times, put it, Perry is “a Technicolor cipher, a singer who takes on the shapes and tones she is given with aplomb and cheer but maybe not wit.” Katy Perry’s Super Bowl 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z But he’s a cipher, a weapon clicking to life in response to a preprogrammed signal. Movie Review: ‘Blue Ruin’ Stars Macon Blair as a Man With a Vendetta 2014-04-24T22:43:10Z No character is more of a cipher than the shadowy government operative Matt — which in part prompted Mr. Brolin to turn down the role at first. Emily Blunt Plunges Into the Drug War’s Morass in ‘Sicario’ 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets: A New Commentary by Don Paterson The sonnets are close to being one such cultural cipher. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z When we can see the horrors ourselves, we don't need a cipher. Rereading Stephen King: week three – The Shining 2012-06-22T11:32:40Z A grand, complex human drama is reduced to platitudes and pretty pictures, as some fine actors become ciphers of suffering and resilience in a strained and superficial pageant. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z Beane and Brand are marvelously and vividly human, even though their approach to the game involves the almost literal dehumanization of the players, who are converted from flesh and blood into ciphers of pure probability. ?Moneyball,? ?Ides of March? Contain Inside Information 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z But it does need to act as a translator: Desiigner, a 19-year-old Brooklyn unknown, is largely a cipher still, and his lyrics verge on the inscrutable. The Playlist: Searching for the Real Desiigner and Saying Farewell to a Punk Band 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z But with Luke I couldn’t help but wonder, what was the point of spending an hour with a character that remains nothing more than a cipher? ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Episode 7: Crossing the Border 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z His role is not exactly that of a cipher, but Forster was a plausible conventional leading man who nonetheless could carry off the more self-effacing unshowbiz style of a professional journalist. Robert Forster: a coolly charismatic character actor with an intensely sympathetic air 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Laurel remains a cipher, a comic type, a star without a name. Imagining the Unhappy Life of Stan Laurel 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Her characters are ciphers, developed according to Occam's-razor principles – each one developed precisely as far as he or she needs to be for efficient propulsion of the plot, and no further. Learning to love Agatha Christie 2010-10-01T07:16:00Z In this country, he is both very, very popular and, somehow, a bit of a cipher. Lewis Capaldi Will Break Your Heart. (But Don’t Take Him Too Seriously.) 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z The most conspicuous failure by far was Theresa, who never became more than a stand-by-your-man cipher. So long, "Lights Out" -- you coulda been a contender 2011-04-05T14:01:00Z Tom’s no cipher and Louise is as culpable as him for their problems. Chris O'Dowd on playing Rosamund Pike's husband: 'She could clearly do better!' 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician, first learned of the Zodiac Killer's unsolved ciphers — a series of encrypted messages — from a documentary in the 1990s. Zodiac's cipher codebreaker speaks out: Killer was his own self-defeating "publicist" 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z While the love interest in that book is an annoyingly passive cipher, the narrator’s girlfriend is a free-love feminist with trenchant views on Asian stereotyping. Review: ‘The Sympathizer,’ a Novel About a Soldier, Spy and Film Consultant 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Mary Plazas captures the private hell beneath the self-assured facade, but can't quite flesh out a character who remains something of a cipher. Maria di Rohan ? review 2011-07-10T16:46:00Z At spy stations, young visitors can imitate her method, write messages in invisible ink and use a cipher wheel, an early encryption and decryption device, to reveal information in Tallmadge’s code book. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z That high estimate is for a Soviet Fialka code cipher machine, which is capable of producing around 590 quadrillion possible combinations. K.G.B. Museum Closes; Lipstick Gun and Other Spy Relics Go on Sale 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Ultimately, even after momentarily falling apart in a fit of paranoia, Martin remains a cipher in a movie that never fulfills its potential as melodrama. Movie Review: Orlando Bloom, in ‘The Good Doctor,’ Sends Danger Signals 2012-08-30T23:43:23Z Film and TV are not perfect ciphers or mirrors for society. Dreaming of a white “Christmas Story”: A Yuletide classic’s “color-blind” racism 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z But if that gimmick worked in “Mad Men,” it was because Don Draper was inherently likable and Jon Hamm’s face not a total cipher. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: A Cold Cup of Joe 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z ER, standing for Elizabeth Regina, with the Roman numerals II between the two letters, is Queen Elizabeth’s royal cipher. At West Bank tea party, artist Banksy offers royal 'apology' for Balfour Declaration 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z As the cipher at its center — sacrificial lamb or guilty bourgeois, you decide! — the charismatic Bruni Tedeschi makes a predictably solid impression, which is impressive given the vaporousness of her role. ‘Only the Animals’ Review: A Missing Woman, a Cruel World 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Inside the cover of each bag is a monogram ornament invisible to all but the user; each takes the form of a tiny gold cipher formed from the entwined initials BM. Inside Bunny Mellon’s World 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z He is both ubiquitous and obscure, a cipher who pops up in the most unexpected places. Future and the Art of Flooding the Market 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Tracy Letts gets called on to play a lot of captains of industry and senators, “so you look for the thing that makes it more interesting than just a cipher in a suit,” he said. One Startling Scene: Tracy Letts in ‘Ford v Ferrari’ 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z On Tuesday night, he was spotted again, this time at the Dakota Jazz Club in downtown Minneapolis, once again walking the line, even in his final days, between unknowable cipher and local fixture. Hints of Prince’s Failing Health Preceded a Sudden Death 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The price of that ambition, at least as dramatized here, is borne by those around Mark, who remains a strategic cipher throughout: a Facebook page without a profile photo. | 'The Social Network': Millions of Friends, but Not Very Popular 2010-09-23T16:34:00Z Because Brody is such a cipher people didn't know quite who he was and had lots of different ideas about what he might look like and how he might act. Homeland's Howard Gordon: 'The Brody-Carrie story has to evolve' 2013-04-07T17:18:01Z Don begins the season as a cipher, and he winds up with someone who's as good a cipher as he is. "Mad Men" finale: Hello darkness, my old friend 2010-10-18T12:38:00Z Nijinsky has more to do but is still a cipher, despite Mr. Cusati-Moyer’s feral energy. Review: An Impresario of ‘Fire and Air’ (if He Does Say So Himself) 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z She was a secretive, often prickly woman who remained a cipher even to her friends and lovers, and a trailblazer who wrote one of the first mainstream novels depicting two women in love. The Talented Patricia Highsmith’s Private Diaries Are Going Public 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z But this other-oriented perspective has also made Styles himself feel, on his records, like something of a cipher. Harry Styles Is Still a Dreamy Cipher on His Third LP, ‘Harry’s House’ 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Here these men are but ciphers; we want understanding, but we get only suggestion. Movie Review: ‘My Father and the Man in Black,’ on Johnny Cash’s Manager 2013-09-06T03:26:05Z Rogers, by contrast, is so relentlessly empathetic that he remains a bit of a cipher. 'Everyone said: Don't ruin my childhood': director Marielle Heller on how her Mr Rogers film finally got made 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z It’s unclear because the woman remains something of a cipher – like her director, a dark haired beauty of regal bearing and poise. Angelina Jolie Goes Dark in the Land of Blood and Honey 2011-12-22T09:58:54Z Charlie, in particular, remains something of a cipher: Is this man just a slacker who's taking the path of least resistance, or is he genuinely concerned about Stella? Haven't we seen 'Seducing Charlie Barker' before? 2011-12-01T21:52:03Z Miguel, however, is a cipher, less a human in his own right than a symbol of the cost of development. In Ronald Fraser's 'Drought,' outsider gets in path of village's future 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The chosen contestants then move through various challenges like rap battles, ciphers, and music video production. Why you should catch up on Netflix's addictive "Rhythm + Flow" 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Rourke mopes through much of the movie on the brink of tears, and Mr. Murray’s killer is a snippy cipher. | 'Passion Play': Blow the Trumpet, Palooka, Life Is but a Carny Dream 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z And at the center of all of this are two characters who are complete ciphers. 'Knight and Day' traps Cruise, Diaz and the film's audience 2010-06-21T22:27:00Z Much of his correspondence was peppered with ciphers to keep prying Parliamentarian eyes out of his business. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z ER, standing for Elizabeth Regina, with the Roman numerals II between the two letters, is Queen Elizabeth’s royal cipher. At West Bank tea party, artist Banksy offers royal 'apology' for Balfour Declaration 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z It would be a mistake, though, to reduce the singer to what the critic Simon Reynolds called an "exquisite cipher". Aaliyah's true legacy is her rare gift for nuance 2011-08-25T21:59:01Z Rinaldo is the most memorable of the lot, though audiences accustomed to naturalism may find him rather a cipher. Mary Zimmerman?s ?Armida,? With Ren?e Fleming, at Met 2010-04-10T04:13:00Z It illustrates how people at the time viewed the Bible, science and chronology, Timo explained over Zoom, and why secret ciphers might have made sense to them. What Happens When Everyone Is Writing the Same Book You Are? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Images of this hip-hop dance crew, its members ciphers behind their signature white masks, beckon from multiple casino billboards along the Strip. A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Paul Revere didn’t just warn of a British attack, he hid a magical cipher on the teeth of a skull! How I Lost My Head for Sleepy Hollow 2013-11-18T15:57:06Z Like much else in the play, Larissa remains a blurry cipher, of a kind that invites frustration rather than fascination. Theater Review: ‘The Good Mother,’ at the Acorn Theater 2012-11-16T03:00:00Z The landlady remains a cipher, and yet a faint aspect of loss haloes her. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Renner, though, is saddled with the role of a brooding cipher. Mission: Impossible 4: Cruise Control 2011-12-16T21:29:31Z Malick’s follow-up/companion piece to Knight of Cups is slightly less annoying than his earlier film: its female characters are less obviously ciphers, for one thing. Natalie Portman's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z They’re meant to be monsters, but also ciphers and symbols of a world gone wrong. ‘The Highwaymen’ Review: Grumpy Old Men on the Trail of Glamorous Killers 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Its characters are ciphers, its setting is perfunctory, and its violence is stylized. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z As for the president, he is a cipher, appearing in the play only as limbs jutting occasionally into view. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z A character without relationships or concrete memories, he risks becoming a cipher. Fleeing a Caribbean Plantation Into a Mythic Wilderness 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Sensing this, the reporter ends up describing Don as "a handsome cipher." "Mad Men" recap: Who is Don Draper? 2010-07-26T06:02:00Z Mr. Simpson himself, though capably played by Cuba Gooding Jr., was a bit of a cipher, less the protagonist of the drama than its structuring absence. Review: ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ an Unflinching Take on His Rise and Fall 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Her Caroline was a cipher, and with her at its center, the ballet lacked its full tragic impact. Review: American Ballet Theater Recalls the Wide Range of Its Early Years 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z So, the curious ciphers and clues in these paintings situate their subjects within a complex web of cultural and political change. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z His new father was a womanizing cipher of a man, he recalled. Edward Albee, Pulitzer-winning playwright of modern masterpieces, dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The show opened with a freestyle breakdance cipher — a semicircle of a dozen or so dancers who took turns soloing in the center, throwing down lots of handstands and headspins. Rennie Harris Puremovement performs in Cheverly So the writers and host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live” devised a handy guide to cipher through legitimate news and the so-called fake news flooding America’s media landscape. Jimmy Kimmel’s guide to fake news in the Donald Trump era: “Anything Wolf Blitzer says is fake news” 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Notorious presents sexpionage as morally dangerous, emotionally poisonous – a job suited only for a pawn or a cipher, not a real woman, but Bergman’s warmly passionate performance makes Alicia tangibly real. Sexpionage! Why filmmakers can't resist a honeytrap 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Burgess apparently did "cipher work" for British Army intelligence in Gibraltar during World War II, according to the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Spy novels by real spies: Anthony Burgess, John le Carr? and others 2010-08-18T20:33:00Z Blake's suggestions snowballed into him and Oranchak formally working together, along with Belgian programmer Jarl Van Eycke, to solve the cipher, which is organized as a grid of 63 unique, mysterious symbols. Zodiac's cipher codebreaker speaks out: Killer was his own self-defeating "publicist" 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z And the D.J.-backed ciphers strewn throughout the show remain annual appointment viewing. The Grammys Fumble Hip-Hop and R&B. Here’s How to Fix It. 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Kids can see in this wispy cipher whoever they want him to be. Enticing Books for Every Kid This Holiday Season 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z "You're still Don Draper," Faye says, meaning that he's still just a cipher who says the right thing no matter how he feels. "Mad Men" recap: Cure for the common job 2010-08-30T12:59:00Z Steely though soft-spoken, enigmatic to the point of appearing to be a cipher, dressed in trademark double-breasted bespoke suits and owlish eyeglasses made from buffalo horn, Mr. Deitch was a kind of art-world Zelig. Jeffrey Deitch Faces Critics at MOCA 2012-10-19T23:10:54Z At once, the film's central question arises: Is the Chloe we follow really a malleable cipher who knows what men want? 'Chloe': a darkly erotic tale about a test of fidelity 2010-03-25T21:37:00Z And he seemed perfect to Ariel, who may herself be a cipher. Her Husband Is Kidnapped. Then Things Start to Go Downhill. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, he indulges in overkill, mixing together a plethora of whodunit tropes, including ciphers, a smudged photograph, ancient wrongs, rifled graves, a secret marriage, a lost will and, finally, a surprise ending. Rounding up some unusual suspects: Michael Dirda’s mystery book picks 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The irony of Mr. Matsui’s reference to Noah’s Ark in the title is that his characters are not in fact irreplaceable bearers of their species’ gene pool, but disposable ciphers. A Japanese Director's World Debut 2010-05-26T12:30:00Z He expressed his ciphering talent in an addendum to a letter his wife wrote on July 14, 1897. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The two are thrown back together several months later when Daphne is bequeathed a cipher that promises financial security — something every good spinster requires. The best love story is the one that happens by accident 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z But not too excruciating, because Franklin is such a drab cipher it’s hard to work up much empathy for him. ‘I Love My Dad’ Review: A Father Catfishes His Son 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z This is the best part of the movie, partly because Ostlund allows the characters to behave like people, rather than just grotesque ciphers in his cynical morality play. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Shortly after his premature death, Poe's friend the Rev. Warren H. Cudworth recalled that the author's ability to "unravel the most dark and perplexing ciphers was really supernatural." 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z One of the people who knew Houston the best, Crawford is a cipher in both documentaries, appearing in old footage but never sitting for an interview. Whitney Houston’s Confidante Robyn Crawford Breaks Her Silence 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Graff may be onscreen for much of the movie, but because he’s often gagged, blindfolded and bound, he also presents a question mark, a cipher. | ?Rapt': The Humbling of a Powerful Frenchman 2011-07-05T21:25:47Z After a season of finding himself, Don Draper is no longer merely a cipher. "Mad Men" recap: "I'm drowning, here" 2010-10-04T12:10:00Z While Lively gets to play something resembling an actual human being, these men are nothing more than ciphers. Yet another white lady in jeopardy: “The Shallows” and Hollywood’s empathy gap 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z This second major story line of the season’s penultimate episode wisely fleshes out Maia, who in the past has felt like a cipher. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 9: Blinding Privilege 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z To most observers, the contents of the diary would have seemed a mysterious cipher or code, which helped keep the contents of his private life a secret. 6 historical figures who kept secret coded diaries 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Throughout, “Bobby Kennedy for President” provides information and sometimes fascinating film clips without ever giving us much of a sense of its subject, who remains a Don Draper-like cipher. Review: In ‘Bobby Kennedy for President,’ a Don Draper of Politics 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The motifs varied: a monogram, a family cipher, an Old School motto, a series of signal flags. Noticed: Belts, Stitched and Still Preppy 2010-07-21T19:20:00Z Paradoxically, considering their vocal might, house and disco divas were often ciphers, mere tits-and-ass content delivery systems for the male production community. Loleatta Holloway: more than a voice 2011-03-22T18:54:13Z One time, Mr. Walker said, while giving the inaugural performance on an organ in Dallas, he was vexed by a “cipher” — a pipe that, because of a malfunction, refused to stop playing. Frederick Swann, Master of the Pipe Organ, Is Dead at 91 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z As for Yeshua, the believed Messiah, he’s a smiling cipher given to dematerializing mid-confab, leaving behind enigmatic pronouncements and baffled followers. Review: ‘Risen,’ a Tale of Conversion Starring Joseph Fiennes 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Others naively admire him for unexceptional skills such as the ability "to write, and cipher, too". Poem of the week: The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith 2010-05-31T09:35:00Z The character of Michèle is a cipher for sexual freedom, gratified with disregard for morality. The Phony Sexual Transgressions of Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle” 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z My father was like a cipher to me; the more I imagined him, the less sense he made. Social Q?s: Social Q?s Looks Back on Its Questions and Answers 2011-11-04T20:34:33Z Generally upbeat, and nothing like the formal cipher with a haughty stare in his party pictures, he tends to look people in the eye, listen intently, talk openly and smile and laugh disarmingly. Waris Ahluwalia: A Ubiquitous Presence, However Unlikely 2013-12-12T01:20:00Z I was born a fraction and a cipher and a ledger entry; Gregory Pardlo, Pulitzer Winner for Poetry, on His Sudden Fame 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z And to help you understand that, I have to tell you this: I have always cherished being a question mark, a cipher, a butterfly who can't be pinned. 23 and Not Me: As an adoptee, I'm not even remotely tempted to take a DNA test 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Does it refer to a cipher machine like Enigma? National Cryptologic Museum Is the N.S.A.’s Public Face 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In the presence of her pop goddess Ni'Jah whether on a TV screen or in person, she's a slack-jawed, mesmerized cipher ready to be absorbed whole or devour anything in her way. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z After all, the Queen’s job is, in large part, to be boring: a dispassionate, gracious cipher who can embody the grandness of the British throne without tarnishing it with specifics. Peter Morgan Serves the Queen, Again 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The transaction confers certain privileges and responsibilities while apparently stripping the recipient of the basic right to be recognised as a person rather than a cipher. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Still, in the early going, she is mostly a bemused cipher. ‘Lucky Hank’ Review: Better Call Solecism 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Its elegantly calligraphic ciphers show history's famed general at one of his weakest moments. Napoleon's secret coded Kremlin letter on sale 2012-11-30T05:03:19Z As is the pivotal romance: Arturo is a dolt and Flora a cipher. Review: ‘The Mafia Kills Only in Summer’ Is a Comical Look at the Mob 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z His job doesn’t necessarily require bold charm, but even by those measures, he’s a cipher. ‘Hot Ones’ and Other Shows Parade the Rich, Famous and Oh So Vulnerable 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Some of the designs are ciphers, or coded symbols, entangling the initials of Henry and his many paramours. Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z But James is aimless, charmless, unreachable; it’s hard to tell whether he is meant to be a cipher, or if Mr. Morton is simply not up to lending him depth. Movie Review: ‘Pilgrim Song,’ Directed by Martha Stephens 2013-05-10T01:28:35Z I just don't want to do things ... where the female part is just a cipher where you're just kind of not really doing anything and you're just there to look nice. Gerwig's 'Frances Ha' shows a friendship evolving 2013-05-31T14:41:08Z Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, a leading art theorist, labeled them “ciphers of regression” — insignificant, backward daubers who would soon disappear. Painting From the 1980s, When Brash Met Flash 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Little produced some of the work’s rhythms and pitches through elaborate ciphers and translation strategies: a kind of serious game of which the listener is more or less unaware. Review: A Composer’s Redacted Music and Raucous Noise 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z In any case, it leaves him with a bit of a cipher at the middle of his story. Review: ‘Show Me a Hero’ Focuses on a Mayor in the Maelstrom of Desegregation 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z I looked for clues and ciphers, hoping for proof that Jesus was coming back soon. My night in Judgement House, the church play about hell that made me a teenage born-again zealot 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z An exhibition exploring the art and science of cryptography features works on codes and ciphers. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction The Dark Lady is, I think, utterly unknowable – not least because Shakespeare uses her as more of a cipher, a focal point for his self-hating-fuelled misogyny. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z That’s especially true of “Blue Nights,” which has something of a cipher at its center in the figure of Quintana, who is the absence around which the memoir revolves. Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z For anyone who still finds Ivanka to be a cipher, “The Trump Card” provides a surprisingly clear indication of her instincts, particularly when she discusses her childhood. Ivanka Trump’s Terrible Book Helps Explain the Trump-Family Ethos 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The couple’s adopted daughter, a 9-year-old Sioux girl rescued from a bloodbath, is bit of a cipher, too. A young Irishman falls into the horrors of the American Civil War 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Like the manuscript she is working on, all books are “ciphers, cryptographies, beyond all interpretation.” Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z We glimpse the psychological complexities of the English observers and their Jewish Israeli hosts, but the Palestinian Arabs are largely ciphers on whom western guilt can be readily projected. Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z While inspiring revealing reactions in everybody else onstage, Brick himself remains a cipher, drinking, staring off into space, refusing to answer pointed questions. What if a 1955 shocker is a 2017 shrug? How Antaeus keeps the heat in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z As an undergraduate, Braganza wrote her senior thesis on the word “cipher” in Shakespeare’s plays. Decoding the Defiance of Henry VIII’s First Wife 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Its characters have to be functions of the tract, and have worked best in poems, fables and morality plays created to accommodate such ciphers. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z "He didn't just send ciphers into newspapers," Blake said. Zodiac's cipher codebreaker speaks out: Killer was his own self-defeating "publicist" 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Meanwhile the victims — Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore — are largely ciphers through the six and a half hours of the three films. Television Review: ?Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory? on HBO - Review 2012-01-11T23:08:35Z It’s generally a matter of giving us too much or too little: drowning us in detail or withholding it; presenting a narrator who is a cipher or one who can’t stop clowning. ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Imagine it: a Twilight where Bella has a functioning personality and isn't just an empty cipher for a grown woman's wrongheaded sexual belief system. A Twilight reboot? My blood's racing 2012-06-22T14:50:03Z As he grows into adulthood, Blind Tom is a cipher for dozens of pages and then suddenly sets off torrents of words and original music. 'Song of the Shank' gives poetic voice to a unique American musician 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z In the Oscar-nominated movie "The Imitation Game," a group of young British mathematicians is tasked with cracking the German Engima machine, the cipher device that the Nazis used to encrypt and decrypt war communications. Enigma machine from World War II finds unlikely home in Beverly Hills 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z A month later in a letter to his wife dated April 8, he used the cipher: 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z The striking architecture is combined with a lack of excitement in the street life, as if the design of buildings were a cipher for risk and drama. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z Reagan himself, though, remains something of a cipher. Review: In ‘The Reagan Show,’ No Grenada but Lots of the Arms Race 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Combined with its literally faceless cipher of a hero, the show required an additional element for a mass audience to latch on to. Big deal, he is: how Baby Yoda became 2019's biggest new character 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z While Alice’s other two children remain bland ciphers, Lydia reinvents her relationship with her mother and reveals herself as brave and loving, unafraid to step closer to Alice’s darkness. ‘Still Alice’: Julianne Moore in a role to remember 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Soloway has turned him into a silent cipher of the desert, macho and majestic in cowboy hat and boots. A Deflated Adaptation of the Singular Cult Novel “I Love Dick” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Here are five codes and ciphers that have stymied human ingenuity for decades, centuries, even millennia. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Bacon’s cipher and other famous codes are on display at the Folger exhibit. Got a secret? Learn how to hide it in code at Folger Shakespeare Library. 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z But it's harder to see why anyone is a fan of his in particular, because Mars remains a cipher. Bruno Mars: Unorthodox Jukebox – review 2012-12-09T00:05:56Z Worthy hopes, but some critics complain that in Hostiles the native characters are ciphers. Christian Bale: 'I was asked to do a romantic comedy. I thought they’d lost their minds' 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z But this story of a cipher, ultimately, is a cipher itself. ‘Complete Unknown’ review: Mystery lingers in this uneasy mix of romance, suspense 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Ms. Bruni Tedeschi portrays Beatrice with awe-inspiring, electric vigor, but the character remains a kind of cipher, a device to unlock the tragic dimensions of her new friend’s story. Review: In ‘Like Crazy,’ an Unlikely Pair Flee the Cuckoo’s Nest 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z With each dub, the mystique grew into a cipher, which, if it could just be cracked, suggested just-out-of-reach answers on how to live in such turbulent times. Back to the basement with Bob Dylan 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z But despite being the subject of at least two biographies, Meyer remains largely a mystery, a glamorous cipher. A Real-Life J.F.K. Lover, Murdered in 1964, Stars in Two New Novels 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z If it weren’t for the frequent, helpful interjections of Mr. Quinto’s emotional tour guide, the characters would be ciphers. Review: ‘Smokefall,’ About Several Generations of an Eccentric Family 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z And their inhabitants are anything but symbols or ciphers. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z That allowed you, the player, to put yourself in his place, though it also made the character a bit of a cipher. Video Game Review: Space Zombies, Prepare to Meet Your Mower 2011-02-01T19:52:29Z Mr. Byrne and Mr. Eisenberg are impeccable, but they seem more hemmed in than liberated by their craft, which is to say that Gene and Jonah are beautifully rendered ciphers. Review: In ‘Louder Than Bombs,’ a Father and Sons Grieving 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z In particular, its leading man, the unhappily uncommitted Bobby, felt like a cipher and even a bit of a bore, as he assessed the lives of “those good and crazy people,” his “married friends.” In Revelatory Revivals, Women Sing Through the Pain 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z He is no cipher: we know there are "phantoms" that haunt him. James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z Your ambition, noble though it be, will compel you to treat your loved ones as means or ciphers via manipulation or neglect. The Great American Dream Value Menu: The hard truths nobody tells young people about their dreams 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Grace may be a stand-in for Christ but she is also a cipher: never fully characterised and as much a sacrifice to the novel's theme. A Great Big Shining Star by Niall Griffiths – review 2013-02-01T15:01:01Z Because it was a puzzle of a murder-mystery, we thought it would be really fun to add some hidden Easter egg-style clues, codes and ciphers for people to solve, as a bonus. ‘The Afterparty’ Is a Genre Romp Wrapped in a Comic Mystery 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z This makes “The Dropout” a series built around a cipher. The Women of ‘The Dropout’ Want to Humanize Elizabeth Holmes 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z |
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