Word: psychics
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...John Wilkes Booth, and then established himself as the first of the modern American assassins. Though full of fustian about his love for the Confederacy (he managed to avoid fighting for it, or even living in it, during the Civil War), Booth was clear-headed and precise about the psychic rewards and second-hand renown that come with dispatching a famous man. "What a glorious opportunity for a man to immortalize himself by killing Abraham Lincoln!" he remarked two years before his crime...
...south side. Retired police officers have been questioning drunks drying out in county and city jails. Information is being fed into a computer to determine any common threads of evidence-a 'blue car, say, or a bearded stranger in a neighborhood. Authorities even called in a psychic from New Jersey. Says Public Safety Commissioner Lee Brown, who is black and worried himself about his ten-year-old twins: "You usually have an eyewitness, or a confession, or a great deal of physical evidence. We have none of these...
...seat or next apartment is worth getting to know or is a homicidal maniac. In the towns, by God, the fund of common knowledge about nearly everyone was richly and sometimes intrusively detailed. The urban milieu has its advantages-individual privacy and freedom-but it can exact a heavy psychic price. Citizens who become secrets to each other dead-end in narcissism, cut off from the nation's public life...
...They Came from Within, it was a small, snouty bug, transmitted from mouth to mouth during sex. In Rabid it was a bloodsucking organ that sprouts from the carrier's armpit. In The Brood and Scanners it is the mind itself, splitting the nuclear family and precipitating a psychic apocalypse...
...Psychic gelatin is the main ingredient of Judith Rascoe's Small Sounds and Tilting Shadows. An aimless American woman uses the London flat of a traveling journalist and begins to feel his presence. She wears his bathrobe, reads his mail and manuscripts, talks cryptically to his friends on the phone. The journalist returns to find he is part of a strange relationship and to make the story's point: "One wants to be something, but what is there to be? Now I wish I were an American, now that's something to be! Without a passport...