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...need to pay a $20 fee and make an advance reservation, tel: (1 831) 667 3047. Oh yes, and you can only visit between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. Sure, that's exactly the kind of unconventional scheduling you'd expect from a place that advertises workshops in such arcana as "ecopsychology" and "transpersonal process." But when you drive up in the dead of night and let a lone security guard with a small flashlight lead you through the estate to the edge of the cliffs, the brilliance of it all becomes plain. As you lounge in your...
...surely not thinking about wind vortices, the coriolis effect or the dampness of the troposphere as they hunker down during hurricane Katrina this morning. They?re mostly thinking about the savage rains and 140 mph winds that have driven them from their homes. But it?s that meteorological arcana that?s made such a mess of the bayou, and to hear a lot of people tell it, we have only ourselves-and our global-warming ways-to blame...
Taking The Da Vinci Code's obsession with Catholic arcana a step further, Constantine is a one-of-a-kind hybrid: a theological noir action film. And until it goes irrevocably goofy at the end, it's a smart ride--and smart-looking too, with rich browns predominant...
Satisfying both the fan's appetite for arcana and the entertainer's need for self-promotion, the blog--or Web log, to the uninitiated--may just be the ideal medium for celebrity communication. A handy guide to some high-profile online typists...
...ever since he read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica--which he did to write his hilarious book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World (Simon & Schuster; 386 pages)--it is best to sit far, far away. His blurting of arcana has got so bad, his wife started fining him $1 for every irrelevant fact he crowbarred into conversation. "She was lenient," he told TIME. "I got away with $150. She could have gotten...