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...characters, then showing the fraudulent nature of what we thought was fact. Soon no one, including the characters, know what is or what is not true. It sounds complicated, but the way he does it is by having one character, John (played tremendously by Bill Donnelly) as a crackpot psychic who is, or maybe he isn't, aware of the fraudulent nature of his powers. He is being goaded by Charles (Michael Stone) to steal the Miss A'.s (Alexis Susman) inheritance money...
...second scene introduces Charles as the wayward parasite of the "mystic" John. During this scene any faith we may have had in John's psychic powers disentegrates because he explains all of his tricks to Charles. We learn that psychics actually are fruads, that this innocent woman is being taken in by these heartless...
...help patients end their lives. Last week, in a landmark decision, the country's highest court ruled that though Chabot neglected to have another physician personally examine Bosscher, the psychiatrist would not be punished. "The ruling,"says Chabot's lawyer, Eugene Sutorius, "recognizes the right of patients experiencing severe psychic pain to choose to die with dignity."Contends Chabot:" Intolerable psychological suffering is no different from intolerable physical suffering...
...again, for Nixon. When he left Washington, there was a chance he might yet be prosecuted. Gerald Ford fixed that a month later by issuing a presidential pardon protecting Nixon from legal penalties for anything he had done in connection with Watergate. But Nixon's health was poor, his psychic shock obvious. An attack of phlebitis nearly killed him. He later told friends that he heard voices calling, "Richard, pull yourself back...
...bottle from a Europe that seemed almost inconceivably distant -- 14,000 miles away and shrouded in another kind of cultural space. But when the sources of advanced style are meager, as they were in Australia in the '40s, beautiful deformities can arise -- if there's enough naked psychic pressure behind them to compensate, at least in part, for a thin diet of other...