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Rumors about Boris Yeltsin's health so alarmed Vladimir Trufanov that he decided a long-distance checkup was in order. The psychic healer, whose reputed restorative powers have made him a celebrity in the central Russian city of Tula, announced that he had "remotely" scanned the body of the Russian leader and concluded, "There are no grounds for concern." Trufanov did offer Yeltsin one piece of advice: It is important for the President to "protect his aura from energy attacks and other negative influences...
Yeltsin hardly needed a psychic to tell him that he was under attack last week. No sooner had the Russian President left Moscow on another of his notorious unannounced holidays -- this time to the Black Sea resort of Sochi -- than rumors filled the capital that his parlous state of health had inspired a coup plot. The crisis evaporated when the Kremlin launched a propaganda blitz to demonstrate that, at least for the moment, Yeltsin was still in command of his faculties. But the larger question of whether the Russian leader is in command of the country remains wide open...
When Avedon brought this knowledge to portraiture, he unsettled people who suppose a camera captures the psychological truths of the sitter. To the contrary, an Avedon portrait is just as likely to be a record of the photographer's preoccupations and psychic distresses, in which the sitter plays an unknowing part. If his portraits are psychological studies, the psychology is his, and that, he admits, is why so many of them are so gloomy...
Favorite radio station when driving: Actually I hate the radio. You have to be a DJ and driver at the same time and I always felt this psychic pressure to please the passengers...
Forget Siskel and Ebert. TIME consulted a real professional: Zena, a psychic and tarot-card reader with offices on Bleecker Street in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Her predictions...