Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Katherine Mansfield and other troubled writers, persuasively argues that the younger men approached their predecessors "in depth of genius and artistic achievement" but "surpassed them in the extremity of pain." Meyers' fever chart begins with blighted childhoods: each man lost his father young. Each was severely disturbed, opening his psychic wounds and bleeding into confessional verse. But they all went a step beyond, steeping in self- pity, some sabotaging their marriages with meaningless affairs, others sniping at colleagues and then placing blame elsewhere. "American society would drive anybody out of his skull," fumed Berryman...
Above all, no attempt has been made to expand Murphy's character. Axel Foley is still a man who can instantly weave a seemingly impenetrable disguise out of an accent and a gush of words parodying everyone from a West Indian psychic to a building inspector. That it is good fun to watch him talk his way into and out of trouble, past authority figures both petty and grand, is beyond dispute. That he can assert his brilliance while retaining his character's lovability in these encounters is a little miracle of the performer's art. That he could move...
...lint has long been the hardest to come by (not so in the days before disposable diapers). "After Christmas is always great lint," Barron says. "People wash things for the first time. And new towels. I can always tell when the neighbors buy new towels. There's some wonderful psychic energy going on around me when people do their wash...
...Etta Louise Smith, the nightmare began shortly before Christmas 1980, when she claims to have had a vision of something white, covered by brush. A Lockheed aerospace worker in Burbank, Calif., Smith does not consider herself a psychic. Yet after she heard radio reports about Nurse Melanie Uribe, 31, who had vanished on her way to work, Smith was convinced she knew where the body could be found. She took her information to the police...
Many of the psychics also claim to use psychic powers to physically heal people. "There is a strong connection between readings and healing," says Sadeh, who is a registered nurse and used to work in a mental hospital. She says she attended a workshop on the healing powers of the mind in 1980, and has been a believer ever since...