Word: mystical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other key actors in the drama, including turbaned Iranian clerics and pin-striped international bankers, met in London, New York, Tehran and Washington. As the negotiations intensified, the gulf between the U.S. and the ever unpredictable government of Iran, ruled by the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, an 80-year-old mystic leader, had looked too wide to be breached readily...
Though he says he's not a mystic, Doig affirms a haunting interconnection of our present lives with what has gone before, and with everything around us. Winter Brothers is an astonishing effort to make sense out of a region, both historical and geographical, even as it begins its modern development. One finds here a vibrant, keenly felt consideration of what it means to live in the Northwest--or anywhere, for that matter. Ivan Doig brings the sense of space and time to a wonderful new tingle...
...movie, Jeannette (Margot Kidder) epitomizes Self-Gratification, admitting "all she wants is to feel good." Phil (Ray Sharkey) plays Big Bucks, the New York photographer gone to California to bring in big money and live in big houses, with glossy pictures of himself hung all over his mansion. The Mystic is Willie (Michael Ontkean). Mazursky, whose last movie, An Unmarried Woman, successfully analyzed an urban marriage gone awry, tries to write a morality play of our own time. It is an ambitious project, but somehow an impossible task at this juncture. How in 1980 can a man make a movie...
...Vancouver, Canada, and Berkeley, Calif. He worked for a while in the psychedelic ward of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, helping people deal with bad trips and good. Back in Boston, he studied macrobiotics and the "Fourth Way of Healing"--a method derived from the esoteric teachings of the mystic Gurdjieff--as well as Silva Mind Control. In between Hollingsworth also slipped in four years of psychoanalysis and many hours of Zen practice in San Francisco and Northampton, Mass. The upshot of all that...
...plane turned smoothly, cut through the drizzle on the runway and rose into the muffled brightness of the clouds. We sipped coffee, the pilot speaking little but holding true to the ubiquitous grin. He was a flying mystic, spinning yarns about Kierkegaard and the ineffable quality of flying. We dropped from the clouds, touched down the plane at Detroit City Airport...