Word: psyching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Every time something is awry in William James Hall, we just assume it's some psych experiment, and they're trying to record our reactions," said Chuck R. Kapelke...
...fact, from some comments made by two of my friends in the Intro Psych course here, it sounds like the same course that I took back at Cal State was actually better. Better then Harvard, you say? Well...
...climax. It creates a clash of strong figures engaged in a recreation as elemental as love or war, and with just as much foreplay, anxiety, strategy, abrasion and betrayal. In The Program, one of the few movies to offer clear-eyed criticism of modern athletics, the players psych themselves up for a game by spitting in each other's mouths, and they define their love for the game as "goin' to war with the other guys. Settin' ourselves apart." When they work, sports films, like sports, compress the emotions and battles of life...
...said Gore's chief of staff Jack Quinn, "was to demonstrate that the stuff Perot has been putting out about NAFTA was garbage." Gore spent most of Tuesday reading alone. Meanwhile, in an effort to set the volatile billionaire on edge, White House aides publicly called Perot "crazy." The psych-out war paid off: when Perot began arguing about the ground rules in his very first exchange with Gore, officials watching the debate at the White House resorted to quiet high- fives. Wooden never looked so good...
...says he handled about 75% of his own stunt work, get over his fears? "I didn't," he says. "I was just able to manage it. I'd sit near the edge. Then I would move about 5 ft. closer, 2 ft. closer, not look down, psych myself out. Then when they'd lower me down on a cable to a rock face that might be 4,000 or 5,000 ft. straight down, I would look straight out and say over and over, 'Don't look down; don't look down...