Word: psychic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These psychic genes shaped the face of American life. The interplay of civic-mindedness and conscience has given us whatever we have enjoyed of liberty, while success and industry have fattened our GNP. On the downside, the worship of usefulness has impoverished American art; one takes the bad with the good. Italians invented the Renaissance -- and live in chaos. We produced the Ashcan school -- and Abraham Lincoln...
...this redefinition of the American past that makes p.c. and multiculturalism so distressing to the mainstream. Patriotism and national pride are at stake. In effect, the movements demand that mainstream white Americans aged 35 and over clean out their personal psychic attics of nearly everything they were taught -- and still fervently believe -- about what made their country great. Like the black and women's movements before them, the new movements rely heavily on the unwelcome rhetoric of guilt...
...pigskin bridesmaid because it somehow managed to find a way to lose to those cross-state behemoths at the University of Miami. Even the F.S.U. press book repeats the phrase "can't win the Big One," like a mantra. It's meant ironically but still reveals an open psychic wound...
...show in which music plus lyrics does not equal a song. Lacking distinct melodies, strong choruses and intelligible rhyme schemes, a lot of the songs seem forced and out of place. The incessant background music for much of the dialogued scenes sounds like something straight out of a Psychic Friends Network infomercial...
...frustration and self-pity to his portrayal, Rouse gives the audience something to which they can relate, allowing us to feel for and sometimes even root for a man capable of murder and deceit. Dressed like an Olympic coach from the former Soviet Union, Alexis Susman as the Dutch psychic Helga Ten Dorp, delivers the play's most amusing lines with appropriate timing and sense of mock seriousness. Benjamin's slick, swaggering and sleazy charm make him a convincing pretty-boy writer and conspirator...