Word: psychic
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...citation, just as it may have hurt his early chances for serious roles ("And the Oscar goes to--Billy Bob who?"). But that has been his name since his youth, in Malvern, Arkansas, where Dad was a basketball coach and Mom was a fortune teller with, Thornton says, true psychic powers. The lad was unusual even then, says his boyhood friend Tom Epperson. "My nickname for him was Silly Slob...
...breach-of-contract suits. But even without a lawsuit, their departure will undoubtedly force a sharp reexamination of the Citadel's "fourth class system," in which all knobs are subjected to a certain amount of hazing--a system Conroy, Citadel class of '67, described in his book as a "psychic rape." For one thing, even some important alumni are furious about the scandal. "Don't give us heritage and tradition and all that bull___," Hampton Walker, the head of the Citadel's alumni association, told the South Carolina Post and Courier last week, blasting the school's administration. "Do something...
Oedipus, schmoedipus. Scientists have found "a significant correlation between the presence of the short gene and... neurosis" [BEHAVIOR, Dec. 9]. Are they talking about a life of dread-filled consternation, apprehension, psychic tension, imagined sin, constant self-recrimination and a fear-based view of life? All this is the result of the short gene's inability to promote an adequate amount of "the molecules that facilitate serotonin reabsorption"? After years of psychotherapy, ingesting the serotonin-producing drug Prozac and beating up on myself for being so "weak," I now learn that science is suggesting I am perhaps no more responsible...
...having emotional problems, and the custody court earlier this month ordered her to be examined by a psychiatrist, TIME has learned. On at least one occasion, the girl refused. Even without the media glare, this latest legal wrangle in the Simpson saga will undoubtedly exact a further psychic toll...
While Snuffer may not be a trained psychic, she certainly looked the part yesterday afternoon...