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Scheer, his voice made hollow by several thousand miles of telephone wire from San Francisco warns, "He's a sharp, cunning, ruthless politician. And if you buy that mystic stuff, you're crazy...
Lots of Californians have bought the mystic stuff by now, bought the wide-eyed gazes at the political system and the self-righteousness that went with it. He has propped himself up as the apostle of "lower expectations" in America finding for himself a following cutting across all social and class barriers...
...stuff he said in the interview about foreign policy. But he liked the ring of it. And after he repeated it a couple of times, it was part of him. He gets people sold on him that way. Passing off conservative politics and with that quiet voice and the mystic stuff. You know what it is?" He waits for an answer. "It's the ultimate betrayal of the Zen Revolution, the God that failed. He's exploiting his spiritual training...
...brittle, fragile woman, she isolated herself, governing through a small clique of inept and often corrupt advisers. Among them was Astrologer-Mystic José López Rega, a kind of Pampas Rasputin whose power antagonized the military and whose conservative economic ideas upset labor. After popular demonstrations forced López Rega to quit last July, Isabel became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many...
...that keeps out the fat curls of smoke and perfume and breath thickened with alcohol. Here is no tall, thin, hipless model. The boy is a bit short and very muscular--he resembles classical statues of Greek god. Perhaps he pretends he is centuries away, dancing in some ancient mystic ritual. The glass wall deflects all human contact: he will twitch his butt at you but he will not meet your...