Word: ares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To the chagrin of Soviet scientists, the thought bacteria are everywhere. Following the evening news on TV, hypnotist Anatoli Kashpirovsky holds seances to heal broken limbs, scars and blindness. Kashpirovsky claims to have helped hundreds of people through surgery without anesthesia and to have mesmerized others into losing up to...
Another superstar is Alan Chumak, psychic-in-residence of 120 Minutes, the Soviet equivalent of the Today show. Chumak can transmit his curative powers to heal the sick not only through live TV but even on videotape. Viewers can place glasses of water or jars of cold cream next to...
In small-time show biz, fading but persistent optimism is always engaged in a losing struggle with slowly metastasizing despair. Since Jack and Frank Baker (Jeff and Beau Bridges) are approaching middle age and still playing duo cocktail piano in Seattle's lesser lounges, an air of hopelessness has begun...
It is a setting where actors can live and breathe like real people, and the Bridges boys are better than fabulous in it -- Jeff not quite falling over the line into unredeemable cynicism, Beau never succumbing to the pull of moral blandness. Pfeiffer, who does her own singing, is a...
Bush benefits from the small appetite for rapid change. More than 60% say things are going well in the country, and 90% say things are going well in their personal affairs. Yet the Government gets scant credit for this: 60% say they trust Washington "only some of the time." Asked...