Word: psychics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what else is going on at the 18th annual gathering of the American Society of Dowsers Inc. in the picture-book town of Danville, Vt. (pop. 2,000)? Well, over in the American Legion hall, a psychic healer from Arizona is lecturing about how he knits up broken bones by gently running his hands over the injured area. He also performs exorcisms. In a classroom at the Danville high school, a retired Texas Instruments engineer, Edward Jastram, is busily attributing illness and depression to mysterious "entities" that invade the body, "like mischievous angels." Says Jastram: "Psychedelic drugs especially expose...
Remarks like that clearly make some traditional dowsers a bit uneasy. Robert Monicol drove in his camper all the way from Mesa, Ariz., not because he is interested in "all this psychic stuff' but because "I want to improve myself in my hobby-treasure hunting." A splendidly coiffed blond commodities broker from New York City allows that dowsing helps her cope with, if not actually predict, a fickle market. Ira Denbar, a young mailorder and advertising man from Providence, is trying to shake off the painful effects of a divorce. "Dowsing helps me keep my head together," he says...
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this didease is reflected in the press. It stops at sensational formulas...
...picture here. Set in the high-fashion demimonde of Manhattan, the film has an intriguing heroine in Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway), a chic photographer who shoots in Helmut Newton's sadomasochistic style. The film's premise, though farfetched, also has possibilities. Laura, it turns out, is a psychic whose nightmare visions of ghoulish murders actually come true. But the script doesn't develop its basic materials. The aesthetic and ethical issues raised by Laura's photographs are never worked into the story; the heroine's psychic powers have no bearing on the solution...
...someone is forcing Teddy to act the way he does. The scene in which Teddy directs Ryder to gallop around the restaurant like a cowboy and threatens to force him to make love to Angel on the counter while calling the terrified boy a "fag" and "queer," is psychic and physical torture reminiscent of the rape in Deliverance...