They are ciphers for the white male protagonist to crack.
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International partners can hardly negotiate with political ciphers in good faith.
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They're ciphers, used to translate seemingly disparate regimes of the universe.
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But it also makes sure that these men never become ciphers.
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On the other hand, them being ciphers is kind of the point.
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At its worst, nothing is at stake — the characters are breezy ciphers.
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In "The Mist" the characters struggle to become anything more than brittle ciphers.
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PQCRYPTO is a three-year, European-funded project to develop post-quantum ciphers.
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And the D.J.-backed ciphers strewn throughout the show remain annual appointment viewing.
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Ciphers puzzles were used for our entertainment long before the age of video games.
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Other agents deployed more old-school Cold War spycraft tactics: dead drops, brush passes, ciphers.
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Stepping through a wine-colored curtain into a second room, we find more sculptural ciphers.
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Were Malone and Sutherland genuinely tragic figures, or were they merely ciphers, in tragedy drag?
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Quantum computing will be enormously faster than ordinary computing and will also lead unbreakable ciphers.
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Their most popular subjects are "Dogman" and "Rabbitgirl," autobiographical ciphers that represent the couple's personalities.
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That Barbara and Boseman — both finely acted characters — remain ciphers mars an otherwise stellar episode.
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They're meant to be monsters, but also ciphers and symbols of a world gone wrong.
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It uses emoji characters to create simple ciphers in order to illustrate the basics of encryption.
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Despite a strong cast, which includes Freida Pinto and Idris Elba, its rebels are mostly ciphers.
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"It's not true that social movements are everything and politicians are just these ciphers," he said.
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These artists — like Antonin Artaud before them — seem to be pursued by mysterious ciphers and cryptic forms.
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That's precisely what makes it good literature: the characters aren't monolithic ciphers who embody a single quality.
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"Most of these places in the Midwest are sort of ciphers to the world," Mr. Renn said.
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If it weren't for the frequent, helpful interjections of Mr. Quinto's emotional tour guide, the characters would be ciphers.
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It's really no surprise then that ciphers made their way into the entertainment products of today, given their history.
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Google once played up the nerdy antics of its founders, but now the company's leaders are almost unidentifiable ciphers.
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It was also at the famed Bletchley Park where mathematician Alan Turing developed the Enigma machine, which cracked German ciphers.
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One deploys quantum-resistant ciphers, which are ways to encrypt messages using current computers but without involving hidden subgroup problems.
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The other members of the gang are ciphers, distinguishable only by their physical characteristics and lurid nicknames, like Lollipop and Drone.
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Gods are merely ciphers through which common folk relay their universal needs: to be protected, loved, for life to have meaning.
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At the Encryption challenge, large horizontal touch screens, which look like naval charting tables, test your ability to grasp ciphers quickly.
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Even though the characters are all little more than ciphers, Mary Jane in particular is the classic "unlikeable" Diablo Cody protagonist.
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"There are probably some legitimate questions around whether these ciphers are actually needed," said Curtis Dukes, who retired earlier this year.
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Each member of the talented ensemble brings dimension to his or her role, transforming Christie's interchangeable, disposable ciphers into recognizable human beings.
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Critic's Pick So many of TV's most prolific killers are stony-faced ciphers, immune to the fits and pleasures of human existence.
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With their rich metaphoric ambiguity, gardens have served as ciphers for reflections on nature, the nation and the place of humans therein.
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That said, nearly all of the season's other new characters are ciphers, present to serve plot points or deliver comedy without substance.
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They put the imperial line, whose members had for centuries been living as ciphers in Kyoto, back into the centre of the polity.
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That is the idea behind post-quantum cryptography, an effort to create ciphers that even future quantum computers will be unable to crack.
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He said it had also added new left-shoe, right-shoe ciphers, like O.B.U.F. (overbred and underfunded) and Q.O.C.D. (quite our class dear).
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There's no evidence of ciphers or code in 9M9H93E9's history, and it doesn't really make sense for him to have tanked the subreddit.
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Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank officially have a joint monogram — but one small detail makes it different than the ciphers of other royal couples.
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Every possible move, every possible contingency, from proper foot stance to recognizing Trump's sloppy attempts at any one of 32 possible Masonic hand ciphers.
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During the time, the Zodiac Killer also started taunting the San Francisco Police Department and sent them ciphers with hidden messages inside of them.
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Before leaving their offices, many took important objects and documents with them, like keys to safes and bank account numbers, files and decoding ciphers.
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In April 1986, President Ronald Reagan implied that the US had broken Libyan ciphers after disclosing that the US could read confidential Libyan government messages.
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But while Paul has a fondness for the games of his childhood, he is vocal about the shortcomings of using ciphers to create a language.
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The female characters in Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' songs are ciphers, fragile and lonely women who are desperate for love and protection from men.
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But it's hard not to accept this approach—a benevolent, but firm proprietary vice grip—as a fun deviation from the arcane ciphers of Scrabble.
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Like anthropomorphic hieroglyphs, combinations of ciphers frolic across her canvases, spelling out numbers that refer to data on human attributes that Ms. Pozanti, 32, unearthed online.
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So I feel like the fact that so many of the Westworld characters seem like ciphers to me at this point should count against the show.
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As Richard Brody's New Yorker review pointed out, the characters — and their circular, intentionally vague conversations — leave them almost as ciphers, allowing for plenty of audience projection.
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And, when we say freestyle, we literally mean off-the-dome flows -- not those perfectly delivered ciphers you hear on radio shows (which are often pre-written).
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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.
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Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank officially unveiled their joint monogram ahead of their royal wedding — but one small detail makes it different than the ciphers of other couples.
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But if they can be made into ciphers for everything which supposedly caused this period in Hollywood to end, then so much the better for the film's purposes.
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She and her equally likable co-star, Anya Taylor-Joy ("The Witch"), have been burdened with giving their matching ciphers flesh and a reason for us to watch.
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Nine hundred bucks iiiiiis" — he was doing ciphers in his head, kind of like a parlor trick; this is a man from before calculators — "almost $11,000 a year.
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And in the show's first season, Elliot was so detached from his reality that the other characters on the show often seemed to be ciphers, unapproachable and opaque.
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The code talkers, a group of several hundred soldiers, used their indigenous languages to create impenetrable ciphers as a way of securely relaying vital information on the battlefield.
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Suddenly, he warps readers back to the 2016 presidential election with a piquant exposition of Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Saudi ciphers like George Nader and Joel Zamel.
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Garland has far more on his mind than how to creatively dispatch a list of ciphers and his film is wonderfully unknowable, a crackling tension underpinning the unpredictable narrative.
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From Chasing Amy to the gay bits of Black Swan, queer relationships between women have tended to work as ciphers for male desire, or strained metaphors for male genius.
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The woozy, lyrically dense songs have the feel of "ciphers"—hip-hop's tradition in which small groups of rappers improvise and feed off one another in a live setting.
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Additionally, the Zodiac's many coded messages sent to newspapers between 1969 and 1974 proved hard to crack, and some parts of the ciphers have never been fully figured out.
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The figures work well as delivery systems for her dialogue, at times generating a deadpan humor, like the clip-art ciphers in David Rees's "Get Your War On" (2002).
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Mason takes the memorable female characters of classical myth — goddesses, prophets, rape victims, noble heroines, killers of family members, witches, Amazons, adulteresses and athletes — and turns them into ciphers.
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To get there, they had to endure IQ tests, fake-outs, a search for the price of Mexican agave, ciphers, and demands to use more GIFs in professional emails.
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Although the activities don't include admission to the show, they do present opportunities to make wands, brew potions, unravel ciphers (hidden codes) and make badges representing the Hogwarts houses.
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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.
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For a start, games are still struggling to produce female characters who are more than sole-purpose ciphers, hollow avatars designed to be a pretty face, or a rescue objective.
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They are essentially ciphers; it's less that you become Shepard or Ryder and more that Shepard and Ryder become you — or who you want to be in the game, anyway.
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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.
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The names that become sagas, or ciphers for something else; the stories of Madeleine McCann and Suzy Lamplugh—cases that sustain their own cottage industry of wild speculation and grim intrigue.
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But under his rule, Chechnya often seems to operate under its own laws, an anomaly in the rigid system of rule built by Putin where most regional leaders are Kremlin ciphers.
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During World War II, Winston Churchill referred to Ultra — the information coming from the previously unbreakable German Enigma machines (among many other ciphers and systems including Lorenz) — as his "special intelligence".
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Substitution ciphers have been used as puzzles for years, with puzzle books and newspapers featuring a plethora of variations on the simple concept for readers to sink their intellectual teeth into.
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The leader, an active Buddhist with a philosophical bent, said that those men — cut off from much human contact — were ghosts and ciphers, using a Japanese word that, phonetically, meant both.
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As we marched up Fifth Avenue, ciphers and proxies for a republic as divided as we are about our elected leader, I thought a lot about those men and about honor, too.
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"When I was a kid, and we're talking about a very long time ago, probably when I was about ten years old, I enjoyed decoding these exact kind of ciphers," Paul reveals.
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CNN reported that Stewart also allegedly found his father's initials in the Zodiac's codes and ciphers that were sent to local newspapers, mocking law enforcement for not being able to find him.
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There's the feisty Wren (Joey King of "The Kissing Booth" fame), the down-to-earth track star Hallie (Julia Goldani Telles) and the relative ciphers Chloe (Jaz Sinclair) and Katie (Annalise Basso).
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US intelligence had broken enough North Vietnamese ciphers to be able to follow the infiltration along the Ho Chi Minh trail (via Laos and Cambodia) of North Vietnamese regular troops into South Vietnam.
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The most enigmatic of these prints is Violence and Sorrow (date unknown, possibly 1995), a combination of hieroglyphic figures, ciphers, and profiles organized on vertical and horizontal planes and colored in earth tones.
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The third envelope included two sets of code sheets: one that contained a list of ciphers, and another that listed dozens of words along with their encoded abbreviations, a system known as brevity codes.
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But all that time, you'd been a secret library, tending and discarding ancient ciphers just in case one zygotic codex — like the Veronese manuscript that rebirthed Catullus — might someday burst forth, be fruitful, and multiply.
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I had a piece of paper covered in scribbling and a deep fear of the bright white room at the end of the hall containing puzzles based on the unsolved ciphers of the Zodiac Killer.
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Even more cringeworthy are the exhumations of other '80s and '90s subcultures: pentagrams drawn on Trapper Keepers, unwieldy tubs of muscle powder, whiteboy ciphers drowning out Fugees CDs at backyard keggers in the ramifying burbs.
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They are murky palimpsests; for example, the painting "Report to London" (2015–2016) gives me the sense of layers of ciphers organized sequentially, until they become a message that is almost more noise than signal.
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At six you hid in the attic Scrawling half-inch creatures Scarlet word balloons jostling their lips, Radiant ciphers no one could tell Your imaginary friends, Susie Kali with corkscrew curls, Mad Thoma axe in hand.
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Yet many of its interactions, continuing the franchise's emphasis on arcane ciphers and symbols, will mean little to those not already inducted into a war that kicked off two movies ago because of John's murdered pooch.
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Born in Greece, Kounellis studied under the Roman painter Toti Scialoja and completed proto-Pop canvases bearing ciphers and letters in the late 1950s and early '60s, before eventually bringing his practice into real time and space.
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The underlying assumption behind nearly all encryption ciphers used today is that their complexity precludes any attempt by hackers to break them, as it would take years for even our most advanced conventional computers to do so.
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Heather meets Douglas in 'Silent Hill 3' For a start, games are still struggling to produce female characters who are more than sole-purpose ciphers, hollow avatars designed to be a pretty face, or a rescue objective.
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After the crash, the Swiss retreated into a kind of medieval info-sharing arrangement between the pre-federation Cantons, using a combination of Romansh, Polybius squares, and Vigenère ciphers to attempt a cold restart of the banking system.
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In oral and written comments, opponents cited the lack of peer-reviewed publication by the creators, the absence of industry adoption or a clear need for the new ciphers, and the partial success of academics in showing their weaknesses.
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The organization, which usually prefers to be under the radar, is celebrating its centenary with "Top Secret: From Ciphers to Cyber Security," an exhibition of more than 100 objects at the Science Museum in London that runs through Feb. 23.
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Despite their self-presentation as ciphers, trolls have always had a point of view, and #GamerGate offered a platform for a whole coalition to express its distrust of media, resentment toward women and anger at progressive critiques of racism and misogyny.
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At times, the film looks like one of those computer games where the backgrounds are incredibly beautiful and detailed and the characters moving through them feel all the more like ciphers for the effort that went into on everything else.
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By the third room, my notepad was full of failed solutions to transposition puzzles and my browser tabs were open to binary code translators, theories on how to crack the Zodiac Killer ciphers, and a detailed history of Nazi Germany's Enigma machine.
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"Haunt of Last Nightfall," for percussion quartet and electronics, takes its story from the 1981 El Mozote massacre in El Salvador by soldiers trained by the United States military; "AGENCY," for string quartet and electronics, is a work about secrecy, itself written using ciphers.
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Building a new culture and identity, after saying a more declarative goodbye to the Tom Thibodeau Administration with their dismissal of Rose and Joakim Noah—they are, uncannily, both now New York Knicks—will not be easy in a locker room awash in these brilliant, abrasive ciphers.
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Among the activities: selecting and decorating a badge from one of Hogwarts's four houses; creating a wand, after which an aspiring witch or wizard can explore the origins of historical incantations in word roots from several languages; and making and breaking secret codes, using old-fashioned ciphers.
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There's a bravado here that I can't write off, even if I never felt like the show went deep enough to turn either Owen or Annie into anything more than ciphers, despite all of the self-analyzing monologues both deliver in an attempt to sell their complexities.
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What Hayles alludes to but does not ask, however, is this: Does the substitution of one female identity for another say something about the perceived interchangeability of a particular type of embodied labor, and the undifferentiated female laborers that were processual ciphers to their male employers?
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Above all, Turing's name is associated for many people with the top-secret wartime operations of Britain's code-breakers at Bletchley Park, a sprawling estate north of London, where he oversaw and inspired the effort to decrypt ciphers generated by Nazi Germany's Enigma machine, which had once seemed impenetrable.
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He has been knocked for focusing so intently on the Asian American man's sexual woes, and there are parts of The Souls of Yellow Folk that treat women as ciphers, as merely the measure by which these sex-starved men—who perhaps would now be described as "incels"—hope to gain their redemption.
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If the platitude about millennials participating in casual sex while secretly hating it holds any truth, then Taggart and Halsey are its avatars, standing in for whole generational attitudes; as singers they scream past each other and fail to connect, doomed to fuck a repetitively steady stream of anonymous ciphers for the rest of eternity.
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In April 20163, to pin the blame on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for a terrorist attack at a discotheque in West Berlin where a US soldier and a Turkish civilian had died and 230 were wounded, President Ronald Reagan disclosed that the US could read confidential Libyan government messages, implying that we had broken their ciphers.
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Though uses of the monogram outside of official palace correspondence seem limited, Prince William and Kate Middleton's ciphers have each had their public moments: Will's is on a Canadian flag that flies on days he's in the country, and the couple's joint cipher topped their extravagant wedding fruit cake, served to guests at their reception in 2011.
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