He read Ishmael Reed's experimental satire "Mumbo Jumbo," and something clicked.
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He was always clear — there was never any economic mumbo jumbo.
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And Tierra Whack's "Mumbo Jumbo" serves a strong dose of surrealism.
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Worse, it celebrated new books, a million words of mumbo-jumbo nonsense.
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" And they give me some mumbo-jumbo, and I say, "I speak English.
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Confused as to what the the Byrd Rule mumbo-jumbo is all about?
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But then MUMBO JUMBO came to mind and was too perfect to disregard.
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Much of it is mumbo-jumbo, phony phrases meant to confuse the defense.
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"What I heard was political mumbo jumbo," Mr. Castorina said on the stand.
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Strangely, she's nominated here for "Mumbo Jumbo," a single that predated that album.
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Some regard all that aesthetics-can-save-your-soul mumbo jumbo as sentimental claptrap.
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Many candidates end up spewing mumbo-jumbo if they find themselves hitting a wall.
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Anyway, this is all arcane mumbo jumbo that most sane humans wouldn't care about.
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This comic is full of cute moments despite all the confusing new-age mumbo jumbo.
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But strip away the econ professor mumbo jumbo, and you'll find something you've already experienced.
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But point made ... ride-hail apps cram responsibility with a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo.
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But customers should be told what's actually happening, not fed misleading mumbo jumbo about optimizing bitstreams.
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It's not academic mumbo-jumbo; a better standard would save hundreds of American lives a year.
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But also what scheming, what melodrama, what Walpurgisnacht (Beuys, Wagner — all that old German Mumbo Jumbo).
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This might seem like industry mumbo-jumbo, but there are a few important implications going forward.
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" She got a Best Music Video nod at the Grammys for the visuals to "Mumbo Jumbo.
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Beyond all the mumbo-jumbo about "ethno-pluralism", the old racist tropes and practices are still there.
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Then it tosses all that in the garbage, and takes a sharp left into pure mumbo-jumbo.
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No matter the demand of the people, Coffman stands with and represents the quintessential Trumpublican mumbo-jumbo.
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If you're tired of lock icons and security mumbo jumbo, TunnelBear might be the VPN for you.
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Where "Whack World" feels like an extended art project, "Mumbo Jumbo" scans as a micro horror film.
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Lee, meanwhile, jumped into the mumbo-jumbo with both feet and a collection of other appendages as well.
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The language used is also easy to understand, dispensing with the mumbo jumbo that some meditation apps use.
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The stuff that Paul Ryan was saying about the health care bill was just mumbo-jumbo and nonsense.
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"I don't believe in this mumbo-jumbo digital stuff," Parscale recalled Trump screaming at him during the campaign.
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When Tierra Whack released the video for her single "MUMBO JUMBO," it's dystopic dentist message wasn't easy to decipher.
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Maybe you don't care about the legal mumbo jumbo, and you think morally, Title IX should protect transgender persons.
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More From Tonic: Ariel Henry on Disability in the Media Sound like a bunch of boring legal mumbo jumbo?
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No matter that such "supply side" mumbo jumbo is merely rationalizing being a tax collector for the welfare state.
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We'll spare you the technical mumbo jumbo — OCR analyzes the encoded text and converts it into something your computer understands.
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Is it babies growing in test tubes; hospital gowns and needles and operations; grim prognoses delivered via medical mumbo-jumbo?
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We have SMALL WORLD at 3D, PRINT MEDIUM at 6D, AT-LARGE RACE at 27D and MUMBO JUMBO at 31D.
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He's called King Paimon here, and I'll spare you the mumbo-jumbo about where he fits in the demonic pantheon.
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I feel like [BTS] were very concerned with the instrumentation, and that everything flowed together and it wasn't just mumbo jumbo.
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This new case side-steps any legal mumbo-jumbo that will specify just how much map drawing is out of bounds.
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Forster's Frank carries on Harry's tradition of calmly indulging "the mumbo-jumbo" that comes with fighting crime in this freaky town.
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Before that, it described Swahili tweets as Indonesian and translated them into a mumbo jumbo (or mambo, in Swahili) of incoherent words.
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They were infatuated, too, with unhinged emotion and mystical mumbo-jumbo, and the art that inspired that generation was, often, spiritualist schlock.
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If a candidate antibiotic is some motley herbal treatment — if it has the whiff of mumbo-jumbo folklore — the opposition is stronger still.
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Of course, it's also true that people say this same negative mumbo jumbo about college, about owning a house, and about getting married.
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"There's a lot of commonality in our approaches to art," said Mr. Reed, whose 1972 novel "Mumbo Jumbo" is widely considered a classic.
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"I will as soon as you read Mumbo Jumbo," Eldwin said, and they both laughed a little, though neither man thought the situation humorous.
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The joke works because the punchline — our bosses are bad at technology and good at making mumbo-jumbo decisions on a whim — is eternal.
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And although that all might seem like not-so-sexy corporate mumbo jumbo, hear us out because it's actually relevant to your shopping experience.
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" Her post reads like publicist mumbo jumbo till she blurts out a funny one-liner: "Anyways, thank God for Victoria Secret's new underwear line!
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I know, there's some mumbo jumbo about Saint Valentine to give it a backstory, but that's been completely obliterated by marketers at this point.
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All the marketing mumbo jumbo aside, there are features that you'll want in a hair dryer, especially if you plan on using it often.
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Small-town teen antics are a bright palate cleanser after a swig of mythological mumbo-jumbo (or hallucinogenic mead served in a cow horn).
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Just as the clergy in the Middle Ages spoke in Latin to give their words an air of authority, management theorists speak in mumbo-jumbo.
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"You need to speak your stakeholders' language, and coming out with P.R. mumbo jumbo, like 're-accommodate,' is the wrong thing to do," she said.
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But, enough about the legal mumbo jumbo ... the big takeaway is how much glute AB was able to fit into a 2-minute music video.
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Rocko says Future's lawyers at Epic Records have been offering boilerplate answers and legal mumbo jumbo as to why they can't give Rocko the docs.
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If Amelia (wife of Hays, Carmen Ejogo) quoting Einstein is any indication, there's still a decent bit of self-serious philosophical mumbo jumbo to go around.
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Without getting into too much technical mumbo jumbo, the problem popped up because Microsoft was actually trying to add new ways for applications to access webcams.
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Milner also sees the importance in making data less about numeric mumbo-jumbo and actually accessible for the communities that their group is trying to reach.
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The "perfect impostor", Thomas switches from PR wizardry for an American firm in 1930s Berlin to ideological mumbo-jumbo on behalf of the German occupiers in Poland.
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That's because some of the mystical-mumbo-jumbo dialogue -- as in, "Dormammu dwells in the dark dimension" -- could sound stilted or silly tripping off less talented tongues.
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Ishmael Reed is a playwright, poet, and novelist who had his first major hit, Mumbo Jumbo, in 1972 — before "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manuel Miranda was even alive.
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In his satirical novel Mumbo Jumbo (1972), Ishmael Reed invents a spiritual germ called "Jes Grew" to account for black culture's transformative influence on twentieth-century America.
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" Later last year on CBS's 60 Minutes, Parscale said that Trump had initially been reluctant to spend campaign cash on digital advertising, calling it "mumbo-jumbo digital stuff.
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Sales agents, however, are often eager to push other forms of insurance that include complex investments, large and often hidden fees, and complex riders laden with mumbo jumbo.
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Even though Apple is using image recognition mumbo jumbo on faces, and stresses that this is a portrait mode, it does work on things like strawberries and hands.
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"We have a scarcity of experts in the world and for years art graduate schools have taught that connoisseurship is a kind of mumbo jumbo magic," he said.
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"The vibe is less 'Karate Kid' than 'Fight Club,' minus the aggressive stylistic poses and the apocalyptic mumbo-jumbo," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The Times.
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This relegated astrology to unserious mumbo jumbo for the first time in our history, which is interesting considering how recent The Enlightenment was in the grand scheme of things.
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A lot of legal mumbo jumbo in the court's decision, but the bottom line ... the judge concluded Resnicow was a deck trespasser and it was rightly owned by Justin.
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Eating all but one because "it looked weird" transports her mind to "MUMBO JUMBO," her video debut about a hellish visit to the dentist that's sung mostly in gibberish.
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One of my children's favorite Minecraft broadcasters is a user named Mumbo Jumbo, another Briton, whose real name is Oliver Brotherhood, known for his instructional videos on using redstone.
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" Parscale has said that after Trump won, the President-elect thanked him and made clear he then understood the power of what he had called "mumbo jumbo digital stuff.
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We won't bore you with the legal mumbo jumbo, but this judge said he didn't have the power to unleash Suge's full legal team ... another judge has to do that.
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The primary is now in a state of "mumbo-jumbo," said Robert Wolf, a venture capitalist and influential Democratic donor who raised money for and advised former President Barack Obama.
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Hyde introduced them to ketamine lozenges, which made the treatment cheaper for patients and obviated the need for intravenous delivery with its attendant "medical mumbo jumbo," as Wolfson puts it.
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Granted, Ford is in Bernard's head because he uploaded a copy of himself there, rather than the sort of mystical human-host mumbo jumbo that enabled this device in Battlestar Galactica.
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TRURO, England (Reuters) - Britons should get vaccinated against measles and ignore online "mumbo-jumbo" about dangers of the jabs, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday after a resurgence of the disease.
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"The Last Jedi" keeps scoffing and smirking at the saga's iconography and mystic mumbo-jumbo in a manner more akin to a Mel Brooks parody than an official entry in the series.
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Alas, after a strong first series, Daredevil's second effort was mired in a plot involving mystical mumbo-jumbo and hordes of disposable ninjas (sadly this theme bogged down "The Defenders" as well).
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With Stylizer 7's innovative code grid format, you can edit CSS in real time and design beautiful, functional, and responsive websites without having to learn all sorts of technical mumbo-jumbo.
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In a sprawling letter consisting mostly of feel-good mumbo jumbo and a light sprinkling of feature ideas, the Facebook visionary laid out 5,700 words' worth of nonspecific stuff that sounds nice.
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It was a miniature tour de force, and enough to get Whack noticed by the Grammys (which, with typical befuddlement, nominated an earlier, more conventional track, "Mumbo Jumbo," for best music video).
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" DelGaudio knows that when many of us think of magic, we summon cartoonish stereotypes: top hats and wands at children's birthday parties; mumbo-jumbo at Interstate-adjacent casinos; G.O.B. on "Arrested Development.
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It was the colonial state that opted instead, he says, to refer to the soldiers with the "meaningless mumbo-jumbo" of "Mau Mau" in order to obscure both their goals and their purpose.
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What the legal mumbo-jumbo means is that some 2,100 properties seized in the wake of wars with Pakistan and China in the 1960s will forever remain the property of the Indian government.
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Psychiatrists and other scientists have known for decades that our emotional responses to a candidate's appearance, cadence, use of trigger words, and tone matter much more than policies, data, or demographic mumbo jumbo.
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The administration's legal mumbo-jumbo attempts to use laws that are meant to protect vulnerable children as a screen to terrorize them and to deter immigrants from coming to the United States border.
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The scientific mumbo jumbo he was telling me sounded just like the kind of stuff a reptilian shapeshifter would use to confuse and obfuscate the matter for intrepid, truth-seeking minds like mine.
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While Johnson has said the UK will not lower its food standards after leaving the EU, he has also said his government's policy will be dictated "by science and not by mumbo-jumbo."
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He also asserted that many of the arrangements did not violate the FTC deal, due to their mumbo-jumbo reading of the service provider exemption:Still, Facebook executives have acknowledged missteps over the past year.
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However, he does thinks there will be a bit of a respite from the "political nonsense and mumbo jumbo" as earnings season gets into full swing when the big banks start reporting on Friday.
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Most of the rest of the mumbo-jumbo is the typical warmed-over "innovation" and "don't we all love small business" standard fare that excites elite policy wonks but is largely irrelevant to voters.
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The video for "MUMBO JUMBO," with dystopian imagery of a nightmarish visit to the dentist, would be the stepping stone for the rabbit hole we fall down on her debut Whack World, out now.
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The screenplay by Laura Santullo, Mr. Plá's frequent collaborator and author of the novel from which the movie was adapted, ensures that you understand only fragments of the mumbo-jumbo spouted to discourage Sonia.
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The fervent ambitions of STEM pushers and the psychological mumbo jumbo of SEL proponents sound nice, but it's all nothing but feel-good fluff, and it's all borne and cultivated within the public education system.
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"This was seemingly a reference to Prime Minister Johnson's speech on global trade last month, in which he said the UK government's policy on food standards would be "governed by science" and not "mumbo jumbo.
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After parodying their mannerisms and mumbo-jumbo, she told a story of a session with another seer whom she assumed to be a crank, but whose vision of her happily partnered romantic future proved uncannily accurate.
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"Mumbo Jumbo," (Tierra Whack) Marco Prestini, video director; Sara Nassim, video producer BEST MUSIC FILM Life In 12 Bars, (Eric Clapton) Lili Fini Zanuck, video director; John Battsek, Scooter Weintraub, Larry Yelen & Lili Fini Zanuck, video producers
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Occasionally reading from notes scribbled on a napkin, Mr. Baxley said prosecutors had targeted Mr. Hubbard with an attack overflowing with "mumbo jumbo" that was "not exactly as cut and dry" as Mr. Hart made it seem.
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I flick on the episode of Dexter's Laboratory and laugh through a mouthful of omelette at the same moments: the teacher asking the insane mumbo jumbo Maths question, and his look of surprise when Dexter is correct.
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He rolls out the introductions, drops a little mumbo jumbo and some data points (mostly from Dr. Ventress, a shrink played by the perfectly chilled Jennifer Jason Leigh); he also engages in too much narrative throat clearing.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 83% (season 2)What critics said: "The distinct episodes help keep viewers invested when 'Altered Carbon' goes too heavy on diegetic mumbo jumbo or changes its own rules to set up silly twists.
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""But I must say to the America bashers in this country if there are any that in doing free trade deals we will be governed by science and not by mumbo-jumbo because the potential is enormous.
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Whatever problem you are dealing with, we hope that this article will demystify some of the legal mumbo-jumbo (while asking you to remember that this article is strictly for informational purposes, and doesn't constitute actual legal advice).
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At home, I would usually sit at my desk after dinner, trying to make sense of the mumbo-jumbo, while sneaking peeks at a magazine or book hidden beneath my work, always wary of a sudden parental inspection.
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At least, that's the thinking behind Original Strength, a fitness philosophy that sounds like some mumbo jumbo, but is gaining traction — and getting grown people to crawl around on the floor as part of Pressing Reset workshops all across the country.
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Abrams, who also directed "The Force Awakens," the first chapter in this trilogy, suppresses that potential, reaffirming the historic "Star Wars" commitment to dynastic bloodlines and messianic mumbo-jumbo, even as he ends on a note of huggy, smiley pseudo-populism.
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But "The Cloverfield Paradox" gets sucked into the vortex of scientific mumbo-jumbo, while oscillating between the space-bound crew and a parallel plot regarding what's happening on Earth that does far more to muddy the narrative than enhance it.
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The trend started sweeping (ha) through social media on Monday ... with word spreading that NASA claimed February 10, 2020 was the only day a broom would be able to stand on its own due to some sort of gravitational pull mumbo jumbo.
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But all that high-concept mumbo-jumbo can't mask the fact that at its core, Alien: Covenant really just wants to be one thing: a relentless slasher film that ups the gore, piles on the body count and the revs up the shocks.
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The first season of "Daredevil" was very good but the show struggled with its second act (a problem that has afflicted programmes from "Westworld" to "The Killing") wherein the hero tangled with hordes of identikit Ninjas and a lot of mystic mumbo-jumbo.
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Meanwhile, Ejiofor's Mordo and Benedict Wong's character Wong spend much of their filmic existence explaining concepts like astral projection, relics, ancient tomes, and all the mumbo jumbo surrounding "sanctums" — magical security systems for planet Earth that are overseen by the Ancient One.
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Eastwood attempts to dress up the narrative with some human-nature-vs-the-cold-efficiency-of-technology mumbo-jumbo; there's also a contorted attempt to pretend there was a moment when spineless bureaucrats believed Sully was anything other than an heroic figure.
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The firm's CFO, Luca Maestri, accused Ms Vestager's team of "legal mumbo-jumbo" and poor maths: their calculation that Apple paid an Irish tax rate of under 1% for 2014 was arrived at using the "wrong denominator and the wrong numerator", he claimed.
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" Still, there is a value to the "mumbo jumbo," Mr. Srere said, adding, "If calling it a lifestyle brand begins to move them and get the company to think differently about the brand and move to a more meaningful role, then that's fine.
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Rajneesh mesmerized his followers with a stupefying amalgam of Eastern mystical mumbo jumbo (Rajneesh, like Charles Manson, talked frequently about the need to "lose" or "give up" the ego) and the language and techniques of the then-prevalent humanistic psychology and human potential movements.
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His mother Shmi and Jedi master Qui-Gon Jinn just explain this away in "The Phantom Menace" via some Midi-chlorian mumbo-jumbo, and everyone is just fine with the idea that Anakin Skywalker's other parent was essentially a bunch of microscopic beings attracted to the force.
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Cleverly hiding xenophobia under legalese and statutory mumbo jumbo are tools that the Trump administration have deployed to detract from the fact that the possibility of asylum, as it has existed in the United States, is being virtually eliminated for most of the world's persecuted people.
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To hear her tell it, this move to lifestyle isn't just marketing mumbo jumbo, it's the acknowledgement, thanks to the multitudinous voices allowed to be heard via the internet, that people aren't marketing types, and that in every woman's life there are multitudes, sometimes conflicting ones.
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By the time I encountered the Outsider, a dark figure who lives in a magical dimension known as the Void and looks like a singer for an early-aughts emo band, I barely cared about the mystical mumbo jumbo plot information he was trying to explain to me.
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I know the "few clicks" part sounds like a lot of marketing mumbo-jumbo, but if it works as in the demo, it is really just a few forms where you select the fields or objects for which you want to create a prediction and you're good to go.
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The first problem is this: Because AI is so poorly defined, it's really easy to say your device or service has it and back that up with some plausible-sounding mumbo jumbo about feeding a neural network a ton of data on TV shows or water use patterns.
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Bambenek doesn't think the possibility is a problem: "Weev [the alias of notorious hacker and racist Andrew Auernheimer] could rotate wallets six ways to Sunday but all the dumbasses that fund him are barely able to figure out this Bitcoin mumbo jumbo in the first place," he said.
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Apple slammed the Commission's decision, calling it "legal mumbo jumbo," and cited concerns of the ruling's ramifications on state sovereignty in the EU. "We are confident that the Commission's order will be reversed," Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in an open letter to the Apple community in Europe.
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The Bright Sessions features many of the typical trappings of superhero stories, including shadowy government conspiracies and vague yet ominous human "experiments"; but emphasizing how much the characters' abilities hinge on their inner state of being ensures the story stays focused on people rather than devolving into scientific mumbo-jumbo.
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"Because there's no political mumbo jumbo with him and he's going to stop everybody, Syria, Iraq, you name it, treating us like a doormat," said Eileen, a teacher, working herself into a fury on a sunny afternoon in Culpeper County, one of the prettiest, most law-abiding, luckiest places on Earth.
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There's a lot of mumbo jumbo about scheme fits and reading defenses and all the usual things you hear when it comes to rationalizing Kaepernick's continued unemployment, but Breer apparently never asked, or these four brave anonymous souls chose not to answer, whether they were influenced by Kaepernick's anthem protests.
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Styles based on clothing once worn by the artists and writers represented in the exhibition also were integrated into the fall collection, which is titled "Mumbo Jumbo," the same name as the disorienting 1972 voodoo novel by the American writer Ishmael Reed (represented in the exhibition in film and text).
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Produced at a cost of over $1 million on an apparently sole source contract, it features, along with a load of management fad mumbo-jumbo, some recommendations not visibly based on the data collected, but certainly intended to support the pillaging of the State Department that is clearly in the administration's intentions.
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While the odd LeBron James jersey can be spotted, our Brooklyn Nets gear seemingly fades into the sea of Yankees caps brought home by tourists returning from New York (oblivious to the hate they are inspiring from this Mets fan) and the endless Brooklyn-related mumbo jumbo that now adorns T-shirts worldwide.
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Suddenly, all the mumbo jumbo about special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's investigation being objective and focused on national security melted away in the face of a police-state action so completely inexplicable.
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The play, which borrows elements from Adrienne Kennedy and Ntozake Shange, not to mention Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" and Ishmael Reed's "Mumbo Jumbo"—Parks is the premier hoodoo artist of the stage—tells the story of Black Man with Watermelon (Daniel J. Watts), who is married to Black Woman with Fried Drumstick (Roslyn Ruff).
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In The Last Jedi, almost everyone is trying to shut down or eradicate some part of their past, and you get the sense that Rian Johnson was (politely) attempting to do the same thing with Star Wars itself, jettisoning the series' long-running penchant for quasi-mystical mumbo-jumbo, and pushing the films toward a more intelligently designed version of faith.
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Gauguin, on the evidence of this show, was a monstrous sexual predator, a near-perfect embodiment of the malignly lubricious male gaze, a man from France who took himself off to the French colonies, and not only sexually exploited many of the women he saw there, but also did his best to exoticize them in his paintings, to lay them out sideways, scantily clothed, in dreamy readiness for everyone-knows-what, and surround them with inscrutable ancestral gewgaws and snatches of mumbo-jumbo writing, all in the service of creating a seductively alluring species of art for mock-serious-minded, top-hatted collectors in Paris.
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