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...league, traditionally a good spot for almost everyone to pick up much needed momentum. With a reminder that I nailed 31 out of 40 games last year for a percentage of .775, we turn now to the crystal ball, located in the middle of the Ouija board littered with tarot cards, to predict this week's winners in what appears to be a disturbingly tough slate of eight games...
...masses which degenerate into orgies; his 70-year-old mother, who is not above a little devil worship and perversion herself; his butler, who strangles a secretary in the Capitol while clad only in a human skin--not his own; and a vice president, who plans his campaign around Tarot cards...
Primaries are the tarot cards of politics, but experts who try to read them in this roiled year are having problems of perception. The voters have been re-nominating incumbent Congressmen by the bushel while rejecting some other experienced officeholders out of hand. Last week's California primary was probably the most revealing so far. With gubernatorial races in both parties and an anticorruption referendum of unprecedented scope and complexity, Californians seemed to be saying that they are standoffish toward all candidates. At the same time, the voters are enthusiastic about fundamental political reform...
...four-suit deck is largely a Western convention: there are round Hindu cards with ten suits representing the ten incarnations of Vishnu, and some Persian decks had five-dancer, queen, soldier, king and lion (see opposite page, top left). In the classical fortuneteller's deck, the tarot, the suits were four: cups, swords, coins and batons. Each suit had 14 cards, with four court cards that included a knight. To this pack of 56 were added a further 22 divinatory images -the Tower, the Hanged Man, the Fool (who is the ancestor of the modern Joker...
...17th century, made for Orthodox Jews whose religious laws forbade them to touch pasteboard decks at Passover. Silk and cotton or plaited straw were inlaid into the cards to reproduce gay theatrical costumes in their original fabric, like the 17th century Pulcinello opposite. The superb min-chiate (or tarot) cards done in the 15th century by Bonifacio Bembo for Filippo Visconti, Duke of Milan, are so elaborate in their detailed painting, embossment and gilding that they could seldom, if ever, have been used...