Very gently, he removes the crab from its pot, cups it in his hands and speaks to it in a secret language, then places it in the bowl with the sticks and covers it.

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From caress-soft romance to pounding shake-apart chases in no less exotic a setting than "Ultimatum's" Tangiers, Powell is fluent in the secret language of the great film composers working today: The secret is you don't know they're there, guiding your emotions, pacing your reactions, churning up your attention, easing you out the door during the credits.

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This was good for my secret because I was comfortable with such language, and he and I shared sumptuous ideas over fine wine or walking through the Central Park Zoo smelling the chilly fall air.

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One of the world's oldest football leagues has received an award for sending secret assessors to matches in a bid to clamp down on foul language.

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His involvement in the plot to kill Hussein is unknown outside of Israel, where a Hebrew-language Israeli television documentary in November first illuminated the long-secret story.

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The secret was to employ a stripped-down vocabulary and, crucially, avoid all figurative language and never tell jokes.

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