Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small indeed. A number of disciples report having donated a pack of cigarettes to the guru and thereby been freed from the desire to smoke (others, even after the guru has touched them with his sheaf of peacock feathers, still sneak out of the ashram for a quick puff). But many testify that the guru has genuinely helped them to cast off "negative emotions" and achieve a certain tranquillity. Says Muktananda of his own mysterious powers: "I am however you see me. If you see me as a saint, I am a saint. If you see me as a fool...
What makes the $13.5 million judgement especially remarkable is that Stern won it mainly through pleading what he termed psychic impairment. At first the Pittston attorneys characterized this as mere "puff and blow," until witnesses' breakdowns during hearings convinced Judge K.K. Hall that this was not so. Teams led by prominent psychologists (including Harvard's Robert Coles) found anxiety symptoms in all survivors of the flood, even those who had made it to safety. They watched friends and relatives carried out of their arms, or pulled older folks out of the water with bodies smashed, to have them die from...
Lately, though, the critics of the critics have begun to turn on Kael. After praising her to the skies for a decade (she won a National Book award for her last batch of reviews), they now accuse her of floating a series of "puff pieces." The controversy came to a head a year ago, when she gave herself over to unabashed adulation for Robert Altman's Nashville. She called it "an orgy without excess" and made it sound like a gentle, cinematic orgasm. ("I sat there smiling at the screen, in complete happiness.") Before, her fans had loved her pyrotechnic...
...brief question period that followed, classmates served up four cream-puff questions to Bok and his colleagues. Then, on their way to lunch, alumni scrambled up the steps of Widener, where Harry Selig, barking through a bullhorn, choreagraphed them into an enormous wedge for the official class portrait--his 50th...
...natter on too long, the highly theatrical author causes a grotesque face to appear at a window, drops someone through a trap door or stages a preposterous recognition scene. A master illusionist himself, Davies well deserves a packed house when-on a bare stage, out of nowhere, in a puff of smoke-he materializes with his next book...