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Greenfeld convincingly evokes the terrain where he has lived for more than a decade, winning an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of his novel Harry and Tonto and psychic bruises from the failures of unluckier projects. In the Freudian setting of a studio men's room, producers trade angst-drenched conversation about whose career is bigger. Aging men who cannot control their appetites go in search of one-night stands and "kosher diet tacos." A rabbi pronouncing a eulogy reaches his apogee with the solemn question, "And who of us does not love show business...
...self as an external object. He finally transcends his isolation by projecting himself outwards, at the same time engaging the reader in the transformation. Lapses in personal poetry, then, can be either failures at any step of this ritual--such as the unquestioning immersion in narcissism which leads to psychic laundry lists--or simple failures of poetic technique...
With those numbers somewhere in mind, and operating with a psychic sketch of their collective clientele that is approximately as accurate as a police composite ("The average customer will never understand that," said Kaplan, dismissing one particularly intricate Ferré blouse), the buyers run through the racks of clothes. If it can be said to exist at all, fashion sense is an amalgam of taste, whim, herd instinct and anxiety. Buying clothes for a store may not be a weighty responsibility, but it is a significant one. By determining what parts of a collection are bought, and in what quantity...
...real problem have is apathy," says Webber. "Is there any reason for these people to believe the government can do something for them? Look at the war on poverty: big promises dashed to the ground. This is psychic murder we are engaging...
...Russell Targ, co-author with Keith Harary of the forthcoming book The Mind Race. "I did the work," he contends. Because he was working with special clearances while at SRI International, a California research institute, Targ will not specify whether the Defense Department, the CIA or both funded his psychic research programs, but he maintains that there was a "multimillion-dollar" project, part of which focused on "remote viewing" experiments...