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"It's not as sexy and dirty and clandestine as people like to think," he added.

But generally Mr. Korty's response to the cityscape feels overly cerebral and oddly clandestine, as if he were painting in code.

Some are open, as in polygamy; many are clandestine, as with old lovers, bosses or even, perhaps, an abusive uncle who cannot be shaken off.

In his preface, he notes, as a supposedly telltale fact (evidence of "conflict"), that Robbins, who was born in 1918, kept his affairs with men "as clandestine as possible".

Far from being clandestine, as the Pentagon has implied, the murders of civilians were common knowledge among the unit and understood to be illegal by "pretty much the whole platoon," according to one soldier who complained about them.

Despite the Brownlees having raised the profile of triathlon, the female triathlon stars of Great Britain (of which there are many), remain about as clandestine as an MI5 probe.

And like Mr. Haynes in "Poison," they seem profoundly influenced by Jean Genet's image of imprisonment as a homoerotic fantasy, creating a landscape filled with beautiful men and opportunities for clandestine couplings, as well as the looming possibility of corporal punishment.

Constitutionally independent, he must grapple with the pending prosecution of scores of former paramilitary bosses and drug lords, while probing hundreds of claims that soldiers have killed civilians and supervising the digging up of some 30,000 clandestine graves, as well as investigating common crime.

While the mobile world has been patiently waiting for the Pre since it was first teased back in January, Palm has apparently been hard at work on the (clandestine) Post as well.

The network of sensors — run out of Vienna under the auspices of the United Nations and known as the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty — monitors the globe for clandestine nuclear blasts as well as other seismic and atomic events.

It raises significant suspicions that Iran may have other clandestine nuclear facilities as well as questions about the timing of its break out capacity.