Unfortunately the arcane business model at Star Barn Thoroughbreds has not worked out and they are left with over one hundred broodmares, some stallions and sparse income.
Like the @ symbol, an arcane accountancy motif, which was reinvented as a star of the digital age when added to e-mail addresses, the # has been resurrected by digital technology.
The talk show's host and Artie Conn chatted amiably for five minutes about the imminent release of the long-overdue Hollywood adaptation of Mister Arcane that was the pretext for the interview, starring Kevin Kline in the title role (perfect casting, my husband thought).
Within his benign cultural fief, Mr. Schwartz is a star maker, whose passion for the most arcane details of popular musical history is boundless.
Besides, turning back the arguments of lobbyists and politicians on a subject as arcane as this is sort of like debating particle physics with a Hollywood star on Bill Maher.
Hollywood psychotherapy, when Stutz arrived, was divided between the classical Freudians, who had started coming West in the twenties to treat nervous stars and studio heads, and the followers of Jung, whose arcane symbology appealed to the arty spiritualist impulses of the locals.
North American stars from Drake to Pharrell Williams are anxious to align themselves with this arcane world of "garms" (clothes), "bars" (rhymes) and "creps" (shoes).
Instead, he was promoting Sony's arcane, if advanced, digital high-definition video camera technology, which Mr. Lucas is using to make the coming "Star Wars Episode II," the first feature film produced without, well, film.
The dispute may seem arcane.
