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...comradeship and sense of celebration when the pounding stops-the feeling Victorian families must have had at Christmastime. The charade ends with Daddy happy for the moment, and a new trophy on the shelf: an unprecedented third world championship mounted on a field of broken collarbones. This psychic manipulation complements the military planning of the Packer High Command. Kramer starts on Tuesday-by Thursday it is too late-working up "an anger, then a hatred," to the point where on one occasion he considers kicking a fallen opponent in the spine. What kind of victory, what kind of money, justifies...
...account, a man confident of his own abilities and of his immortality, a man who transcended life while still alive, not by mystic experiences, but by facing death and overcoming it. Lifton speaks of a characteristic quality of tone and content that, more than any other, shaped the psychic contours of the Cultural Revolution. I refer to the kind of existential absolute, an insistence upon all or none confrontation with death...
This bizarre conversation is recorded in a new book called The Other Side (Doubleday; $5.95), which Pike wrote with the help of Diane Kennedy, the executive director of a private foundation that handles his business affairs. "An account of my experiences with psychic phenomena," the book is a straight-forward chronicle of Pike's 21-year effort to communicate with his dead son. It also contains a father's painfully honest account of the sad events that led up to James Jr.'s suicide in February...
...apartment kept stopping at 8:19-the hour when James Jr. had died in New York. Books and cards kept toppling over to an angle that matched that of the hands of a clock at 8:19. Eventually, Pike consulted an Anglican cleric who was interested in psychic phenomena; he suggested that Jim was trying to get in touch with Pike from the beyond and recommended the bishop to a "sensitive" named Ena Twigg. It was in her London sitting room, Pike says, that he first got in touch with Jim. "I am not in purgatory," the boy told...
...camera cuts in for overly searching closeups of Curtis, whose baggy faces droops a millimeter or two as he finally coughs up the secrets of his "other self." To let even the dullest know what's happening, a hand-held camera stumbles behind the strangler re-enacting--in the psychic presence of Bottomley--one of his slayings. A few multiple image projections here, as throughout the film, serve mainly to drain whatever fear, fascination, or other emotion the strangler might evoke, reducing him to the level of a puppet dangling around on screen...