Word: mysticism
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...despite Kerry’s myriad flaws, all magnified to fly-frying heat by the president’s political fuglemen—and despite the extraordinary disloyalty of a campaign staff that makes the team Al Gore ’69 had look like a mystic cult—the Democrats’ larger problem goes back farther than this campaign...
...China in the early Deng Xiaoping era; in Florence, Italy. In his book A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, the Italian-born Terzani detailed his adventures in 1993, when he traveled Asia by land and sea after receiving a warning from a Hong Kong mystic that he might die in an airplane crash that year...
Lehane—who did not write the screenplay for the film of Mystic River but said that he had been able to review the script before production began—also spoke about adapting his book to the big screen...
Although Lehane said he enjoyed the film of Mystic River, he added that he did not think the movie was capable of capturing the full force of his book...
Lehane added that he lamented a subplot in both versions of Mystic River involving the character Sean and his estranged wife because it was too peripheral to the core of the movie...