Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spot chicanery than scientists, who can be woefully naive about the gimmicks and techniques that charlatans may use for mystical effects. James Randi, who appears on television as "the Amazing Randi," duplicates many of Uri Geller's achievements with a combination of sleight of hand, misdirected attention and patented paraphernalia, then calls them feats of clay...
Many of our species apparently prefer to regard humanity as elevated from the rest of the animal kingdom by virtue of a "soul" or other such mystical paraphernalia. Some, however, see the species as animal in origin, and regard sexuality in the same light. Opponents of pornography who argue that it is bestial in nature, and reduces human activity to the level of animals, are quite correct. This is, perhaps, my reason for being bored with current pornography. But it is beside the point. Pornography is not a popular view, yet it is a coherent one, one which...
...better things than a soulful love scene with lines like, "Two people . . . [pause] . . . become as one [pause] . . . forever," mumbled with mystical intensity as he symbolically fiddles with an entwined set of bracelets on her sweet young wrist. Despite a whole magician's supply shop of prestidigitator's paraphernalia, The Magician conjures up nothing so much as an urge to presto change to another channel...
...commercials - and those $100,000 bonuses?) In the process, the viewer receives a game of infinite hue and complexity, an amalgam of ballet, combat, chess and mugging. No matter how fine his TV reception, no beer-and-armchair quarterback can hope to see the true game. For all the paraphernalia, the tube rarely shows an overview; pass patterns and geometric variations are lost in a kaleidoscope of closeups and crunches...
NIXON IS RESPONSIBLE for his underlings transgressions. Whoever the immediate agent of the crime--a pilot over Vietnam or a cabinet-level crony conniving with ITT--Nixon bears a direct and immediate responsibility for the acts. By continually cloaking himself in the paraphernalia of the presidency, by systematically confusing his personal and political needs with the needs and interests of that impersonal entity, "the office of the president," Nixon has cultivated an atmosphere in which his agents would inevitably confuse their master's instructions with...