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Word: decipherable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead there is a lot of talk. Much of it in impenetrable spaceflight jargon. Scanners, deflectors, warp speed, linguacode-words like that are always being barked into the intercom. But it is never to the point: it is hard to decipher where the starship Enterprise stands vis-a-vis the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warp Speed to Nowhere | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The story, which an attentive viewer can decipher by watching any single episode, centers on the repeated attempts by Norman (Ralph Zito), the title character, to convince his sister-in-law Annie (Nora Seton) to go away with him, for the weekend. Annie invites her brother Reg (David Prun) and...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Currier's Conquests | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

Says Ajemian, "I've sensed how to decipher Kennedy's spare offerings on questions about his own psychology. The incomplete sentences and body language, the voice up or trailing, the eye restless or alive." Concludes Ajemian: "John was more open than his brothers. Bobby took things more personally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 5, 1979 | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Republicans believe that the most damaging revelations of all concern Texan John Connally, whom Nixon and his aides consulted frequently even after he resigned in 1971 as Secretary of the Treasury. Leon Jaworski has reported that Connally suggested to Haig's predecessor, H.R. Haldeman, that John Mitchell should be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Damaging Tales | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

With the aid of an outstanding cast, director Daniel Sherman and producer Rick Livingston have rendered admirably Shaw's light-hearted pandemonium and his apocalyptic vision of a new European class consciousness. Although the characters in Heartbreak House loosely represent symbolic roles in English society, they consistently refuse to be...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Heartbreak Hilarity | 4/27/1979 | See Source »

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