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Word: psychically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with hypnosis. But he admits to a life-long addiction of his own: gadgets. One historic day six years ago, he repaired to his garage with an armload of automobile power-window assemblies and second-hand refrigerator motors worth about $2,000 at the junkyard. Three years and a psychic, $750,000 later (his labor, which he figures at $20 an hour), Skora had remade the mountain of junk in his own image and likeness, more or less. And he looked upon it and saw it was good. And he called it Arok. Following the custom among home robot builders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...knocking off her friends by stabbing them in the eye with an ice pick (a rather uninspired and not very subtly executed modus operandi which grates more than it terrifies). Mars has visions of the murders as they are happening and tries frantically to find the killer, using her psychic powers...

Author: By Raymond Bertolino, | Title: Stupid Films: A Textbook Case | 8/11/1978 | See Source »

...plot is improbable at best and absurd at worst. Dunaway plays a fashion photographer whose photos are in because they include images of violence and death. The twist comes when the people Dunaway "shoots" die violent deaths in about the same poses. Apparently, Dunaway has some kind of psychic link with the killer, and the race is on to see who will win out. Don't bother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM: Bruce, The Band and Poonies | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

...running produces chemical changes that help cure serious disorders. Jogging literature now features overblown claims for the method. Runner's World magazine says that Kostrubala may be "a therapeutic messiah who will lead the mentally disturbed out of the desert." Writer Valerie Andrews, in her forthcoming book, The Psychic Power of Running, argues that weekend jogging clinics "could well be the basis for the nation's first grass-roots movement in community mental health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Jogging for the Mind | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...about his drinking and raffishness. Often, the tie is a uniform signaling solidarity among certain kinds of men, a semaphore announcing that "we all speak the language." It gives men a feeling of security, a certain formality, a necessary distance. Although the tie may be physically uncomfortable, they take psychic comfort from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Odd Practice of Neck Binding | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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