Word: inkblots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a grotesque, hook-shaped inkblot, the oil spread menacingly across the water. Along a single stretch of Brittany beach, 25 species of dead fish were found. Vast beds of seaweed, which are harvested to make Pharmaceuticals and fertilizer, were destroyed. Thousands of oil-tarred birds lay dead or dying. The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey were threatened, as were the sands around the spectacular monastery at Mont-St.-Michel. Driven by gale winds, the oil may despoil more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther...
...craft to know what kind of race had sent it. Since the March launch, however, the two scientists have discovered that the drawing is more than a message to outer space. "We didn't realize it," says Drake, "but it turns out to be a cleverly disguised Rorschach inkblot test...
After more than a year of appearances at film festivals, museums and private screenings, the mystery is finally being made public. But it comes with no simple solution. Maidstone has no real narrative line. It is an inkblot test of Mailer's own subconscious, which the director is using both to taunt his audience and to challenge...
...recent issue of the Journal of Psychology. Clinician Fred Brown of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital reports that people no longer respond to the well-known Rorschach inkblot test the way they once did. In the Rorschach, patients disclose their emotional conflicts by describing the people, animals and objects they visualize in abstract shapes. One of the ten standard blots has long been helpful in spotting sexual difficulties. In the 1950s, 51% of patients who were shown the blot said that it looked like a male figure. That response was considered normal. As for the 39% who thought...