Prior to the work of Becker, the household had a shadowy place in analytical economics.
It includes a mysteriously ill patriarch, a Rasputin-like confidante of the country's president, a shadowy Samsung office that has disappeared and reappeared before, and an alleged bribe in the form of a horse.
How many secretaries, when asked about shadowy office goings-on, riposte breezily, "My troika was pursued by wolves"?
Deep in the Home Office budget, it is possible to discover that the shadowy Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism paid out more than £4m in grants to local authorities in May 2009.
The company, he said, reports to a shadowy Communist Party agency called Office 39, which gathers foreign hard currency for Mr. Kim through drug trafficking, counterfeiting, arms sales and other illicit activities.
Still, Sill, with a strong assist from cinematographer Greg Cotten, presents a vivid, butterscotch-coated, neo-noir world of shadowy offices, apartments and diners that deftly elevates the L.A.-shot film and makes the first-time feature helmer a talent to watch.
WASHINGTON — The latest target for the United States, as it tries to tighten the screws on North Korea, is a shadowy party organization, known as Office 39, which raises hard currency to buy fine liquor, exotic food and luxury cars for cronies of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il.
The phenomenal world becomes a shadowy, one-dimensional place.
All of Act Two takes place in a shadowy netherworld.
Last May, a fax arrived at the London office of the Arabic newspaper Asharq Al Awsat from a shadowy figure in the radical Islamist movement who went by many names.
