Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many companies, it is not unusual for fired top-and middle-level executives to be provided with secretarial help, résumé-writing assistance and psychic support from counselors who help them vent anger and wage effective job campaigns. Bethlehem was the first big firm to give white-and blue-collar employees the same kind of help. It maintains "career continuation centers" for displaced people in Johnstown and Bethlehem, Pa., and in Lackawanna, N. Y., near Buffalo, site of an 83-year-old plant whose shutdown was announced three days after Christmas...
...came to define the difference between the Chinese and Japanese ideals of exalted beauty: the former based on symmetry and minute gradations of fixed etiquette, the latter on irregularity and "natural" grace. Sen No Rikyu (1521-91), greatest of the tea masters, established chanoyu as a kind of psychic enclave in which warlord, samurai, priest and scholar could shed the burdens of rank and power by refreshing themselves at the well of nature. A developed Japanese form of Rousseau's "natural man," living in harmony with a world he has not made, is to be found in the teahouse...
...foundation for the story is provided by a series of Oriental myths suggesting that certain women are capable of using psychic power to possess and manipulate people around them. Mieko Togano, Enchi would have us believe is just such a woman Mieko eventually comes to fully possess her daughter-in-law, Yasuko, whom, she uses to enact a bizarre revenge plot, not directed at anyone in particular, but rather at the vague target of past misfortune Throughout the novel, the obvious passion and energy of Mieko are hidden behind a face which reveals no emotion, similar to the masks actresses...
...still Superman, of course, who is no more subject to mid-life crises than he is to dandruff. If he is made to turn sour, there must be a reason. Enter a triad of villains-Megamogul Ross Webster (Robert Vaughn), his ugly, scheming sister Vera (Annie Ross) and his "psychic nutritionist," the alluring Lorelei Ambrosia (Pamela Stephenson)-and one nebbishy computer genius gone astray. His name is Gus Gorman, and since he is played by Richard Pryor, two things are certain: Gus will be on Superman's side in time for the climax, and the film will turn...
...been given to making the kind of pronouncement about their work that one associates with quacks. The shoddiness of their work as scientists is the result less of incompetence than of a conscious rejection of scientific ways of looking at things. Leary and Alpert fancy themselves prophets of a psychic revoluton designed to free Western man from the limitations of consciousness as we know it. They are contemptuous of all organized systems of action--of what they call the "roles" and "games" of society. They prefer mystical ecstasy to the fulfillment available through work, politics, religion, and creative...