Word: arcana
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...desk, among the papers of nutritional arcana are drawings of incarnations of the food pyramid. An unopened weight-loss shake sits on the side of the desk—for demonstration, not use. Plastic tomatoes, carrots and apples rest on the shelf behind him, next to a plastic bread loaf and an incongruous miniature lobster...
Clearly, the pug boxer is never far from Stallone. His home is festooned with Rocky arcana, including paintings by the actor. There's also a photo, taken the day Baghdad fell, of a young Iraqi hoisting a U.S. flag with Rocky emblazoned on it. The image pleases and tickles the star: "You know the movie wasn't playing in Iraq. Why would someone smuggle into the country a character that represents the American Dream? Did he have it under his bed thinking, I can't wait to be liberated! It's the first thing I'm pulling...
...husband's humiliating, reckless affair to turn the tide. Even then, Hillary at first instinctively resisted any sympathy for standing by her man. Once she finally accepted it, she won the widespread popularity that had always eluded her. Wooing county chairmen from Utica and Poughkeepsie, and mastering the arcana of dairy price supports was not what won Hillary her Senate seat. It was Monica...
...Louisiana for 38 years; of apparent heart failure; in Washington. First elected in 1948, a day shy of his 30th birthday, he became the first Senator preceded in the chamber by both parents: the legendary Huey P. Long and Rose McConnell Long. A master of procedural rules and tax arcana, he was responsible for, among other things, the earned-income tax credit and the $1 taxpayer checkoff box to fund presidential campaigns...
...many of the ITMFG films swamp us with religious and sorcerous arcana. A priest in ?CESK? announces these rules, as if every educated person knows them: ?When two opponents have the same strength, the one with the taller altar will win,? and ?He who wears a red petticoat will be possessed by the god of war.? ?Devil Fetus? mixes ghost lanterns and paper money (actual paraphernalia of grieving) with a levitating mom, a bleeding mirrors and a flying carpet that?s less magic than black magic. To make a ?love hex? operable, in ?Eternal Evil,? a man needs his sister...