Word: psychics
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...anticipated psychological fallout. Hundreds of thousands took to observing "Ground Zero Week," which featured the loving re-creation of every detail of the apocalypse -- in the weird expectation that rehearsing the End would prevent it. Those who refused to join the hysteria were diagnosed as suffering from "nuclearism" or "psychic numbing...
...fairness and mercy, is his muse and counterbalance -- playing Athena, goddess of reason, to his Perseus, the mythological hero who killed the monstrous Gorgon. The play hinges on the passionate dialectic between these two, which turns ominous when it leaves the realm of playwriting and becomes a struggle for psychic survival...
...some the lesson in avoiding violence comes late. Psychic scars have already made them casualties of the street. "I'm afraid my day is going to come, that I'm going to get killed one day," says a fourth-grade boy. Two members of his family were shot to death, and police advised him not to discuss the shootings for fear the killers would return for him. Recently he witnessed a neighbor gunned down as well. "I saw the fire come out of the gun," says the boy. "It hit him in the head, and he fell...
...lurks underneath. Many Russians light candles in church nowadays the way they formerly paid their Communist Party dues -- as a kind of insurance, just in case. Belief in miracles remains strong in a nation once fervently dedicated to the scientific method. How else to explain the extraordinary following of psychic healers like Anatoli Kashpirovsky and Alan Chumak, who held audiences spellbound with their televised seances a few years ago? Even sophisticated Muscovites rushed to buy supposedly energized issues of newspapers and placed jars of water by their TV screens to absorb the healing rays of these video shamans...
...film may have looked escapist at the time. But its central themes -- the conflicting claims of loyalty, ambition and love, the psychic links between the artist-outsider and the outlaw, the irrational constraints imposed on performers by aesthetic dunces in high places -- had immediate relevance for Carne and his colleagues. Now a wonderfully imaginative troupe of French origin, settled for more than a decade in Minneapolis, has found the melodrama surrounding the making of the movie just as rich a wellspring...