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...scene is vividly set-the metallic glare of the sun, the midday lulls during which the air sings with insects. The French merchants and their wives connive and squabble among themselves, fighting off the boredom and psychic impotence that come with their isolation. Missionary priests browbeat the natives for wood carvings, then ship the choicest home to be sold and burn the rest as being in "bad taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Over There | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

...learn who Amy Wallace is, turn to page 521. She is a) Irving's daughter, b) David's sister, c) the possessor of "such psychic skills as clairvoyant reading and psychic healing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Help for the Listless | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Just as Kushnick experiments with sounds and perceptions, Jeannie Lieberman sees herself as "a psychic emotional jiggler" who asks herself "deep root questions," and expects the listener to do the same. She uses her voice as an instrument, experimenting to discover the right texture, color and feel. The rising glissando in the second verse of "Velvet Sportcoat" abruptly alters the mood set by the song's first verse, and underscores the words: Haze like juice spilled slowly formless/Scent of citrus in my ears." In one of Johnson's compositions, "Instrumental," Lieberman makes bird like sounds that are almost primal...

Author: By Michael Barber, | Title: A Psychic Jiggler | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

Greis is no newcomer to the psychic struggles that play such a big part in men's golf. As a high school senior at Waschusett Regional H.S., she shuffled between the first and third slots on the boys' team and was voted co-MVP. That was in addition to garnering six letters while playing field hockey and basketball...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: From Sarazen to Greis | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails to mention: like terrorist violence, Soweto riots, and other events irrelevant to our lives.) There are other goodies too: deaths by freezing, psychic phenomena, and this week's cure for cancer...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: Tabling Tabloids | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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