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...Washington Post, would arrive home "in jeans and a sweatshirt covered with soot and glue, too tired to change clothes." Shalel Way, a friend in Skowhegan, told the Post that Barbara would complain, "Johnny Walker did this to me." She shared her secret with Way, even asking for a Tarot card reading to help her decide whether to tell the FBI. She claimed that John would get drunk, call her on the phone and brag about helping the Soviets. "Johnny Walker is a traitor to his country," Way quoted Barbara as saying. "I'm really going...
...polymorphous artist. He works, not always with the same assurance, in numerous media: fresco, watercolor, pastel, oil on canvas, sketchy washes over silver leaf. His work embraces a lot of art-book references, from the overripe baroque of his native Naples to Tantric symbolism. It is full of occultism, tarot, necromancy, devils, Sabbats and pallid sexual grotesquerie. It always looks hasty. It is heavy on the orifices: eating, coupling, defecating; the mood varies from mysterioso rhetoric to voyeurism. One moment Clemente is quoting poses from Giulio Romano's illustrations to Aretino to Indian miniatures (he spends part of each year...
...Holyoke Center offers a wide range of classical and modern works on theology and spirituality, though one should be prepared to spend a lot of money for enlightenment here. The Shambhala Booksellers (58 John F. Kennedy St.) offers an impressive selection in comparative religion, healing, occult sciences (Tarot, witchcraft, Qabalah), and mythology. These places are for the esoterically minded...
...shop strikes you at first by its altogether workaday decor; it looks like a tacky, run-down coffee shop, with signs advertising "water vibrations, spiritual hearing, tarot." When I was there, Christmas Muzak was being played. The several tea leaf readers go from table to table talking with people and dumping tea cups upside down to decipher the leaves...
...author of A Tremor in the Blood, says the tests are accurate only two-thirds of the time and are far more likely to be unreliable for a subject who is telling the truth. "They have no more place in the courts or in business than a psychic or tarot cards," he says. Congress has ordered the Office of Technology Assessment to make a study of polygraph reliability and has placed a moratorium on the use of lie detectors by the Defense Department until the study is completed. Polygraph tests are generally not admissible as evidence in federal courts...