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...coma with the mind of a 16- year-old and the strength of an ox; and one very spooky giant. Cut the hype, lower the expectations: Twin Peaks is not the second coming. But it is a damn fine TV show -- playful, unnerving and, despite all the mystical mumbo jumbo, more involving than any soap opera since the early days of Dallas...
...between different factions on campus. Antiapartheid activist Vaughn "Dap" Dunlap (Larry Fishburne) is trying to incite Mission to divest. His fight brings him into conflict with Julian "Big Brother Almighty" Eaves (Giancarlo Esposito) leader of the Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity, who condemns Dap and his "fellas" for their "African mumbo-jumbo...
...century of efforts to quantify physiological differences between the races has yielded plenty of anthropological mumbo jumbo. In the early days of Darwinism, some European scholars suggested that the major races had each descended from a different species of ape: Caucasians from chimpanzees, the most intelligent nonhuman primates; Orientals from orangutans; and Negroes from gorillas, the biggest and blackest...
...mumbo-jumbo at the end of the movie further demonstrates Almodovar's utter lack of subtlety, his chaotic design. Indeed, he takes no notice of any traditional ideas of propriety. But as one of his characters says, "It's not enough to be unscrupulous. You have to have a certain sense of humor." In Law of Desire, Almodovar uses his well...
...Mumbo Jumbo says: "No one says a novel...