Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Calder began making sculptures out of wire alone--just a line springing in air, curving back on itself, joining with others in a frazzle of twists, hanging from a string and responsive to the lightest touch of a finger or breath of air. Most of them were portraits--some of fellow artists (Miro, the composer Edgard Varese), others of show-biz celebrities like Josephine Baker or the great honky-tonk comedian Jimmy Durante, whose famed nose, translated into wire profile, becomes a fearsome proboscis. They were witty, vital (the faint quivering of the wire from room vibration gave them...
Emily's study had several crucial misinterpretations and misrepresentations of the therapeutic-touch process. The number of people tested was inadequate. Underlying the study is a gross misunderstanding of TT. It is not done with only the hands; it is an interiorized process called into being by compassion for someone who is in need and is coupled with a deep-seated, knowledgeable intentionality. The technique used in Emily's study comes close to being a parlor trick and in no way resembles TT either in concept or in practice. One wonders what was behind a respected medical journal's publication...
...TEST FOR THERAPEUTIC TOUCH...
...experiment by young Emily Rosa, testing whether the medical practice of therapeutic touch is effective [SCIENCE, April 13], underscores the fact that the mind and body combine to contribute to healing. TT may be total nonsense except when the patient believes in it. You can get the same effect by letting a patient pet and cuddle a puppy. The healing is real; it is caused not by waving hands or furry friends but by the power of the human spirit. Should puppies get paid $70 an hour for "therapy"? Doctors can't write a prescription for that--yet. STEVE STOVER...
...first we were inclined to think of the tale of the teacher and her sixth-grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much...