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...citizen volunteers (among them: Mitchell L. WerBell III, the founder of a counterterrorist school in Powder Springs, Ga., and eleven of his instructors). Dog patrols are being run by Don Laken, a chunky former Marine from Philadelphia, with his two trained German shepherds. Authorities even briefly brought in a psychic named Dorothy Allison from Nutley...
...DANIEL PETRIE'S Resurrection, Ellen Burstyn plays Edna McCauley, a bona fide, clinically tested, laying-on-of-hands faith healer. Her power defies explanation; it may be God-given, it may involve the psychic channeling of electrical impulses. Edna herself doesn't know how the power comes to her. When pressed, she says simply, "I offer it to you in the name of love...
Does heavy television viewing pose a hazard to psychic health? That was the theme of Being There, the 1979 movie starring Peter Sellers as a man whose perceptions of reality were totally derived from the sex, violence and vacuity he saw on the tube. Social scientists have said that TV may have a role in inciting criminal behavior and have found near-constant viewers to be alienated types who find the world a scary place...
Firestarter, thematically at least, is his highest Fahrenheit reading to date. King, who wrote Carrie, The Shining, Salem's Lot and The Dead Zone among other bestsellers, centers his plot this time on a little girl with the psychic power to set objects, people, even buildings and landscapes afire...
...torturing and killing Vicky, the Shop kidnaps Charlie, who is rescued by her father's "push." Thereafter, and for most of the book, Andy and Charlie flee through the Northeast, pursued by a brutal bunch of Shopworkers who anticipate the fugitives' every move. While Andy's psychic powers fade, Charlie's grow ever more explosive- and repulsive...