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...retreat north of San Diego. Now Kübler-Ross, who refers to herself as an "immortal visionary and modern cartographer of the River Styx," has apparently lost any remaining credibility with her professional colleagues. The reason: her close association with Jay Barham, who claims to be a psychic and conducts séances that include sexual intercourse between participants and "entities" from the spirit world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Conversion of K | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...offers a "piece of herself, transferred to his ribs, his kidneys, as pain." Love attaches itself only "to what we cannot help," Updike observes grimly. In another tale of marital wrangling, then, the wife gets through to her husband only by inducing desperation like a "hooked claw," evolving "psychic protuberances that penetrated and embraced his mind." Just in case you didn't get it, in "The Journal of the Leper," the leprous creature is no longer loved by his woman once he is cured. So instead his characters learn to withdraw; they stick wax ear plugs in their ears like...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: The Meaning of a Missing Sock | 11/10/1979 | See Source »

While the younger Bok may have looked out of place on Brattle St., he would have been right at home in the old John Hancock Building in downtown Boston, where dozens of jewelry readers, Tarot wizards, and palm scanners gathered last night for the first annual "Psychic's Festival...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Trick or Treat Serious for Faculty | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

...psychic is a person with the ability to perceive, a person who is not ashamed to say, hey, I knew that was going to happen," said Joyce Carberry, one of the organizers of the festival, who says she has been reincarnated over 20 times in various forms and possesses the ability to read Tarot cards and make spiritual contact with the dead...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Trick or Treat Serious for Faculty | 11/1/1979 | See Source »

...women virtually had to lie down so that they could pull the stiletto-slim jeans over their hips. A few deep inhalations to close the zipper and, voila, skintight denim pants. Now the French are going in the opposite direction, and their latest innovation may undo some of the psychic damage that la cigarette inflicted on Weight Watchers dropouts. Baggy jeans have arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Saggy Slacks Make a Debut | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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