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...nervous about standing up before an audience that I broke out in hives," Estela Guerrero complained on stage. "So I went to a hypnotist and he put me under and made me direct my nervous energies elsewhere...
...mountain town, brought the local Ku Klux Klan out of the shadows and put tremendous pressure on police. They finally arrested four local youths, relying on the statements to investigators of one of them. That man, Roderick Maurice Forney, initially denied involvement, but later, during a session with Charlotte Hypnotist Stann Reiziss, blurted out a barely coherent story in which he implicated at least eight people in the murder, even though physical evidence at the scene suggested the presence of only one. Two of the three other defendants, Brothers Lester and Richard Flack, were convicted on the basis of Forney...
...Martin Orne, one of the nation's foremost experts on hypnosis, who says that Forney's description of events was a classic case of "confabulation," in which a hypnotized subject fills in gaps in his memory with information sometimes suggested to him by police or the hypnotist. Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist, says that Forney was particularly susceptible to suggestion, given his borderline IQ of 74 and a history of mental problems in his family. The psychiatrist, who has for years been conducting a relentless campaign against police hypnosis, called the North Carolina case...
...Hockney's easel paintings, included in the show, makes clear), theater has never been far from the core of his art. His shallow space quotes the conventions of the stage: flats, curtains, wings. There is a taste for exotic figures (red Indians, ancient Egyptians) and stage figures (conjurer, hypnotist, hierophant). Well before Hockney began his career as a stage designer, he was painting pictures with titles like Play Within a Play...
...more, confronts a variety of subjects and surprises encountered in her mobile, solitary life: the sense of helplessness that descends when fighting with the phone company; the awkwardness connected with buying a gun; reading somebody's meaningless leftover notes in a rented memory typewriter; going to a Chinese hypnotist for writer's block; discovering why "deliberate, pointless boredom is a kind of menace, and a disturbing exercise of power." By the flares of such insights, one finds the way through Pitch Dark, a wise and beautifully shaped book...