Word: psyching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...format devised as an upshot of this bit of pop-psych market research pits He-Man's Heroic Warriors against the forces of evil every weekday on 166 television stations. In each half-hour segment, He-Man starts out as a mere wimp of a kid named Adam. When he raises his sword and utters the magic incantation, Adam turns into a hero who looks like Prince Valiant with Arnold Schwarzenegger's physique. Since the animated cartoon premiered 15 months ago, it has gained 9 million viewers, most of them boys ages four to seven...
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...successful athletes have some kind of sermonette they preach to themselves to get those beneficial chemicals fizzing? Of course they do. Has anyone heard a built-in dial-a-psych like Mike Storm's? Not recently. Storm is a 24-year-old pentathlete from North Arlington, Va., who lives in San Antonio because that is the site of the nation's only pentathlon training center, run by the Army at Fort Sam Houston. Money is no problem; a group of U.S. business men interested in the pentathlon underwrites his training expenses generously enough - about $1,200 a month...
...laces up its skates to see if a children's crusade from America can beat the world's best. The smart money says no. According to Fischler, "Our defense can probably handle the physical part, but when the Russians start their razzle-dazzle checkerboard game, they could psych our young guys out and drive them crazy." Others argue that beyond the Diaper Line, the U.S. team does not have the scoring punch to stay competitive on offense. "Maybe so," says Vairo. "But a lot of the same things were said in 1980, and look what happened...
...senior year give up her valedictorianship, and immerse herself in books until she finds a way to stop the rampant murders. The story is narrated by Doony (Kirsten Giroux), Sherry's younger sister, who, while roller skating across stage, explains that Sherry has tried "poli-sci" and "psych-o-logy" and has now turned to her first love--mythology and folklore...