Word: hocus-pocus
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...could never turn lead into gold, sends his young apprentice, Galen, to conquer the dragon. Galen befriends a pretty young woman who wears men's clothing. Once she gets her wardrobe sorted out, he faces his enemy, fortified by his own bravery and a bit of old-fashioned hocus-pocus...
...present-day reality. Things begin to tie in: Chamberlain's dreams... the Aborigines... the strange events in the weather. But it's too easy. Weir has spent a great deal of time building tension, creating atmosphere, invloving the audience, and to resolve the entire plot with the old voodoo hocus-pocus is an irritating letdown. Furthermore, Weir gets increasingly caught up in making The last Wave a disaster-movie morality-play--maybe these primitive people aren't so primitive, maybe the white people have destroyed a much more advanced civilization (shades of Chariots of the Gods). "Why didn...
...CORNELL: Everyone was waiting for Coach Bob Blackman to work that Ol' Blackman magic last year in his first season with the Big Red, but Cornell's problems need more than a little hocus-pocus to solve themselves...
...about organizing their ideas. Later, as a communications consultant to various business firms, he noticed that many executives labored over letters and short messages that turned out to be nearly incomprehensible anyway. The professor's prescription was to isolate the steps involved in writing and thereby take the hocus-pocus out of the process...
...priorities," the President has now dismantled any rational federal approach to urban problems, and has beat a hasty retreat from substantial funding of legitimate and proven federal programs. The "New Federalism" emerges as a shell game of enormous proportions for the cities of this nation...as essentially a bureaucratic hocus-pocus in which poor people, blacks, the elderly, and others who seek hope and opportunity in our central cities will be forced to play the role...