Word: heartbeats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that he does not have his own special outlook. He maintains there is something distinctive about a black dancer. "It is not that black people have more rhythm, as is generally believed, it's that their rhythm is built on the pulse and the heartbeat. Black people are loose. They let their bodies flow naturally." Adds Shook: "Black dancers are temperamentally very close to the Russians. Blacks use the word soul just as the Russians use the word dusha." Exactly, adds Mitchell. "That's what Dance Theater of Harlem is: classical ballet with soul...
BLACK LOCUST (bark, foliage, young sprouts): depression, vomiting, diarrhea and weakened heartbeat. Often fatal...
...Manson. Fromme claimed that she could not be tried fairly unless she could call as a witness her mentor Charles Manson, who still heads a "family" of disciples. When MacBride turned her down, Fromme leaped to her feet and declared, "Your honor, Manson and that family is my own heartbeat ... it's going to get bloody if they are not allowed to speak...
Biofeedback was once hailed as "the single greatest development in the history of psychology." The development of new machines in the '60s offered the possibility of monitoring one's own brain waves, heartbeat, blood pressure, body temperature and other involuntary body functions. The theory: the buzzes, lights or other indicators of biofeedback machines instantly report the body's reaction to thoughts or feelings. Once a patient discovers, for example, which feelings or tensions are associated with a warning buzz or light in the machine, he can learn by trial and error to shift his thoughts or relax...
...statement to the jury of six men and six women in Sacramento, Fromme, who had decided to act as her own counsel, suddenly stood up and demanded the right to bring her mentor, convicted Murderer Charles Manson, into court as a witness. "Manson and our family are my own heartbeat," said she. "I can't go to trial unless they are allowed to speak. Lives will be lost. It's gonna get bloody." District Court Judge Thomas MacBride ejected Fromme from the courtroom and reappointed as her counsel John Virgo, the attorney Fromme had fired just three days...