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There are valid scientific objections to Martin's portrayal of possession. Skeptics note that in the past, both physical and mental diseases have been mis-diagnosed as demonic possession; these range from psychiatric disorders like paranoia and schizophrenia to diseases which affect the nervous system. Parapsychologists working with ESP, telekinesis and other psychic phenomena can also raise questions about the demonic origins of the possessed individual's reputed ability to mentally hurl objects around and read minds. Martin tries to deal with this criticism; one of the exorcists challenges a group of parapsychologists dabbling in astral travel and reincarnation...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Out, Out Damn Spot | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...spiritless. The man who would have sold the world for rock stardom five years ago is now both morally outraged and bored by his medium. "Rock'n'roll has been bringing me down lately. It's in great danger of becoming immobile, sterile, fascist...." Bowie told Stone while disclosing mis plans to leave rock for films. Adding to our apprehensions, it was revealed that Bowie, with what one assumed to be an uninspired facility, had been turning out product faster than you can say Elton John. "Another song, that's the last thing I need. I write an album...

Author: By Brad Collins, | Title: David Bowie and Falling Glitter | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

Godspell. Stephen Schwarz's playful musical version of the rGospel According to St. Matthew. In case you mis this production, the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society is resurrecting the show a it spring musical. At the Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St. through January 25. Performances Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., and Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE | 1/22/1976 | See Source »

Take Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration. He is someone who is in a position usually blessed with total anonymity in a university--yet at Harvard, Hall just can't keep himself out of the news. He is front-page copy almost weekly. Whether mis-ordering storm windows, authorizing bursar cards that would require palm prints to cut down on the number of people passing them around, or airing dirty linen in the faces of other administrators, Hall is constantly at center stage--he's the Mrs. Malaprop of bureaucrats...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Administration at Harvard: All the President's Men | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

Died. James Robertson Justice, 70, doughty, spade-bearded Scottish actor; following a series of strokes; in King's Somborne, England. Gruff-voiced and massive (270 lbs.), Justice appeared in more than 40 films, among them Moby Dick, Les Misérables and The Guns of Navarone. He was best known as the irascible surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt in the British Doctor comedy series of the 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 14, 1975 | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

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