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Jim Wright, Texas Democrat, is an-
other.
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staff “take a detached, scientific and
very supportive interest" in the work
being
done
by
her and
her
col-
leagues.
Mr. Wright’s office says he has at-
tended lectures by Washington psy-
chic Anne Gehman; Mrs. Gehman
says she has discussed psychic phe-
nomena with
Mr.
Wright and
his
wife, Betty, and has a friendly rela-
tionship with them.
Mr.
Pell, perhaps
Capitol
Hill’s
most unabashed believer, has urged
the National Science Foundation, the
Defense Department and other gov-
ernment agencies to increase psy-
chic research funding. He has a full-
time staff member, C.B. Scott Jones,
whose exclusive job is to monitor re-
ports of psychic activities.
Rep. Charlie Rose, North Carolina
Democrat, is the founder of the Con-
gressional Clearing House on
the
Future, which has met
with
psy-
chics. He has urged the CIA to initi-
ate a “psychic Manhattan Project” to
develop its abilities to monitor Soviet
military projects.
The government’s interest in psy-
chic phenomena began in the 70s
when the Pentagon and the CIA, with
the backing of Congress, sponsored
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Washington psychic Anne Gehman cautions that ahy medium who
guarantees physical phenomena is a “liar,, a cheat and a fraud.”
experiments on remote viewing at
SRI
International,
formerly
Stan-
ford Research
Institute,
at Menlo
Park, Calif. It continues today.
In a report last year, the National
Research Council said the Army and
its advisers had considered if para-
normal forces “might g| used to jam
enemy
computers,; ®eihaturely
trigger nuclear weapons and inca-
pacitate weapons and, Chicles ”
It
said
“one
suggested
application”
was to form a battalion of “warrior
monks” who
could
exert
long-
distance influence over enemy per-
sonnel.
The cutting edge currently is fo-
cused on less spectacular goals, the
abilities of people to foresee coming
events ~,Preqognj,Uve Remote Per-
ception
or toshaj^e current ones
— psychokinesis.
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been those reported by scientists at
see PSYCyn:, page E2
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i Paris
gh we tend to relegate
uppetry to the realm of
hildren’s entertainment,
he French understand
_rdly kid’s stuff,
an a birthday party di-
ippets can be the conduit
nedy and chilling drama,
se the faces of puppets
ily immobile does not
:hey cannot convey the
emotion.
-e among the unspoken
y which a Parisian pup-
"with the intriguing
ululu operates. With its
how, “Face a Face,” a
ling, moving and infec-
using series of skits,
: Heracio Peralta and
.colas expand the possi-
heir art without over-
it with spectacle or gim-
appearance is the first
-ench puppet theaters to
_e French Embassy this
year under the umbrella of the
Marionette Performance Festival
Francais. If the other two compa-
nies are as inventive and awe-
youngsters may not have the pa-
rustrated' bv the ODeninTsc
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inspiring, you should make a point
tience or attention span for a show
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of pulling strings to go see them
that evolves in such delicate
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all.
strokes and tiny touches. Instead,
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Puppeteers fade into the background once the performance starts.
“Face a,Face” manages the more
difficult achievement of
transforming adults, at least those
who are willing to accept the ex-
perience, into children-
The stage of the modern Maison
Francaise auditorium is clad in
black, as are the two puppeteers.
At times they appear alongside the
puppets they manipulate, occasion-
ally interacting with them and of-
ten merely standing out of the light
in a semblance of invisibility.
When they mask themselves
completely in black, all it takes
from a cooperative viewer is the:
slightest squint arid the puppets are
moving by themselves.
At one point. Miss Nicolas care
fully takes a puppet of an old
woman out of a wicker basket, lays
it down oh the table-performance
platform and leaves the stage. With
a wondrous touch of theatrical
,
magic, the doll then snaps to life—
by itself or at least at the hand of
the unseen Mr. Peralta.
The puppets move by the simple,
almost imperceptible actions of
their masters, all the better to sus-
tain the illusion of self-propelled
creatures. Bululu strips puppetry
down to its essence, a feat well il-
lustrated by the opening scene of a
sine riaslem Salon (2025
3lace NW) in Dupo
iy was intended to be
ion venture to Mrs. Has
ugtime gallery on Seventh
But as lease problems
~icr to close the Seventh
ipace last December, the
of regular monthly exhibi-
dw has fallen to the salon,
salon will continue to func-
Tiewhat differently from a
Her son and the salon’s di-
through Feb. 11, might inspire
hA(bptovec|iifoii’ReteiiS^i20(>!l /03/26
be a
women are depicted in art has be-
come a subject of intense debate
;
and analysis over the past decade,
and women are Ms. Friedman’s
preferred subject matter.
If her small portrait renditions
of heavy-lidded, porcelain-skinned
beauties are innocuous enough, a
number of full-figure and multiple-
figure compositions display the
tense conjunction of innocence and
by disjunction rrum uie sui icauot
A»RBP96JO0‘/!8'7RO002(JO060027^' 1 'on for atmos-
tures of the women from Picasso’s
classical period, and such classical
subject matter as Botticelli’s
“Three Graces.”
Ms, Friedman's “Three Figures
on the Beach” translates this Re-
naissance motif into a dream vi-
sion; the cavorting women seem
oblivious to a severed foot on the
sand before them. The intimation
of menace and prior violence that
phere. As a result, we tend to read
the paintings as patches of color on
canvas even as we relate to their
recognizable subject matter.
Achieving this kind of tension
between the formal and the repre-
sentational has long been a concern
of painters. Mr. Koch, however,
casts no new light on the matter,
and here the picturesque remains
just picturesque.
Hotel Terminus”
NR (descriptions of Holocaust
ss)
Victims, colleagues, employers,
ntances, observers of Klaus
CTION; Directed, researched
oduced by Marcel Ophuls,
.ive-produced by John S.
nan, Hamilton Fish and Peter
. edited by Albert Jurgenson
atherine Zins, associate
ser Bernard Farrel, with Memory
released by the Samuel
«ryn Company
4V2 hours plus a brief
nission
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o, his bodyguard in Bolivia, his
rney in France, his U.S. employ-
n the postwar Counter Intelli-
ce Corps who used and pro-
cd Barbie for his information
-ommunists.
Ir. Ophuls also talked with Bar-
s victims who have harrowing
mories of his torture methods in
ns, with journalists and Nazi
ters who tracked Barbie, with
-istance leaders, Auschwitz sur-
ors, Bolivian authorities and
des of others who knew Barbie
mew of him.
They all have important stories,
hearing them all in one big,
=-straining (subtitles and IDs),
Dressing dose is a numbing, of-
_ disengaging experience. I vote
three 90-minute TV segments
d less of Mr. Ophuls’ words and
lug face on screen.
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PSYCHIC
From page El
SRI, Princeton and the Mind Science
Foundation in San Antonio, Texas.
In the precognition tests one per-
son,
the
“precipient,” describes
a
randomly selected place that a col-
league, “the agent,” is about to visit.
Miss Dunne says in a test which
she conducted when she was at Mun-
delein College in Chicago, the agent
picked a
sealed
envelope from
a.
stack of 10 containing sites chosen
by outsiders.
The
Rockefeller Chapel
at
the
University of Chicago was the site
picked and
the
precipient,
some
miles away, described the chapel in
extraordinary detail: “I am getting
the little turrets around the building
.
.
. long windows in a row quite high
... a heavy wooden door with a black
bolt on
it.
.
.
. My feeling at the mo-
ment is that
it is a building like a
church, and I can see the pews.”
Miss Dunne
said
that about
percent of similar tests at Princeton
produced results equally rich in ac-
curate detail.
The main emphasis at Princeton,
however, has been on psychokinesis,
which can be more easily fitted into
scientific controls. Robert G. Jahn,
dean emeritus of the School of Engi-
neering and Applied Science, Miss
Dunne and others have reported the
results of 78 million trials in which
voluntary operators have tried to in-
fluence
the
behavior
of
natural
background
static,
called
“white
noise,” and the distribution of free-
falling balls.
In the first experiment an elec-
tronic device produces 1,000 white
noise
pulses
a
second.
Left
to
chance,
half
would
have
positive
electrical charges, half negative.
The participating volunteers try
to influence the impulses by concen-
trating on a desired outcome. The
results over the years show a diver-
gence from the norm 10,000 times
greater than indicated by chance.
In the second major experiment,
called
the “Random
Mechanical
Cascade,” a specially designed ma-
chine drops 9,000 polystyrene balls
through a matrix of 330 pegs.
Left to chance, the balls would be
distributed among 19 bins in a uni-
form,
perfectly
balanced
fashion,
with a few at each end and most in
the middle in what is known as a bell
curve.
Operators will the balls to one side
or the
other. And results over 15
years,
according
to Miss
Dunne,
have, again, been
10,000 times as
great as anticipated.
The other major
psychokinesis
experimenter, Helmut
Schmidt,
a
quantum physicist formerly of Duke
University and
currently
of
the
Mind
Science
Foundation
in
San
Antonio,
has achieved
even more
striking results. His subjects try to
influence
the
clicks
of
a
Geiger
counter.
The
clicks, which measure
the
emissions of radioactive materials,
come at predictable rates. Operators
try
to
speed
or
slow
them.
Mr.
Schmidt says they have outscored
chance by 10 million to one.
The
scientific
interest
in para-
normal events has a historical foun-
dation. Thomas Edison was a firm
believer
in
the
paranormal, and
physicists
Albert
Einstein, Max
Planck and Neils Bohr took open-
minded attitudes.
In
the
1920s,
J.B.
and
Louisa
Rhine were appointed to the faculty
of the Department of Psychology at
Duke
University,
where
they
touched off a new interest in psychic
phenomena.
Reports by today’s experimenters
have
received
considerable
atten-
tion, but less than total acceptance
in
the
scientific community. John
Palmer, of the Foundation for Re-
search of the Nature of Man, in Dur-
ham, N.C. , says in “An Evaluative Re-
port
on
the
Current
Status
of
Parapsychology” (1985) that the ex-
periments do support the existence
of anomalies.
A
report
by
the
National
Re-
search Council, “Enhancing Human
Performance”
(1988),
which
was
funded by the Army, concluded that
they “fall short of an experimental
ideal” and do not “justify any conclu-
sion.” The report praised “the sin
cerity and dedication” of the investi
gators and recommended that
the
Army continue to monitor the wort
at Princeton, SRI and Sah Antonio.
Mr. Thizzi takes a more positive
view. He says scientists prefer to de
scribe test results as “anomalies," oi
abnormalities, and avoid such term
as paranormal phenomena.
He says he would prefer to hav
their
significance
explained
i
terms of physical laws. If they tur
out to be paranormal phenomena, h
says, “it would shake my world to ii
foundations.”
Mrs. Gehman, a board tr. ember i
the National Spiritualist Associatio
of Churches, who charges a min
mum “gift” of $100 for a 60-minu
session and who says she has mar
people from Capitol Hill among ht
clients, believes that she can cor
municate with “those who have goi
through the process of death,” and
certain situations can heal and bei
metal.
But she says 99.9 percent of
r
ported physical phenomena — tat
rapping, levitation and such — a
fraudulent and
that any mediu
who guarantees
physical phenoi
ena is a “liar, a cheat and a fraud.’
She
says
that
if
the
scienti:
eventually prove that their ano
alies are rooted
in natural law
won’t bother her at all.
“Whatever the explanation,"
s
says, "I will be content.”