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Word: psychically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Nixon: I Have Never Been a Quitter | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...beat him up). True, he liked the money that went with mall-rat adulation. But in interviews he exuded a pain beyond standard-issue superstar whining. He said his heroin use was a kind of self-medication for stomach pains, but what he really seemed in search of was psychic equilibrium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Never Mind | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

This first segment of "The House of the Spirits" is the most successful at capturing the magical-realist atmosphere found in Allende's novel. Rosa, with her ghostly beauty, and young Clara, with her psychic powers, tiptoe on the line between reality and fantasy, adding an other-worldly quality to the film's beginning...

Author: By Yael Schenker, | Title: `Spirits' Lacks Essential Spiritual Passion | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Ferula, who has moved to Tres Marias at Clara's insistence, hovers over her distracted sister-in-law, attending to practicalities when Clara and Ferula wrapped up in her psychic powers. Clara and Ferula become the best of friends while Esteban, suspicious of a romantic relationship between the two to them, grows insanely jealous of this competition for his wife's attention...

Author: By Yael Schenker, | Title: `Spirits' Lacks Essential Spiritual Passion | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

Suddenly it is the 1960s, and the Truebas are caught up in the country's political struggles. Clara continues to float around the house and exercise her psychic powers. While Blanca supports her revolutionary lover and fights for political change...

Author: By Yael Schenker, | Title: `Spirits' Lacks Essential Spiritual Passion | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

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