OoOpte Gam t Soject — its 3 Ms."Ball. “If Jim and I te things he says, peogk us. But when he says Ap cally broadens the show." cH, page E5 -ss D. Franklin/The Washington Times studios. ATER / Hap Erstein ‘ea Face’ Ippetry 1 Paris zh 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. 3e-the faces of puppets © aly immobile does not they cannot convey the =motion. "e among the unspoken y which a Parisian pup- _ - -with the intriguing alulu operates. With its how, “Face a Face,’ a - ling, moving and infec-. sing 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 dim Wright, ‘lexas Democrat, is an- other. rovediror Release! 2001/0 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 begarr in ‘the ’70s when the Pentagon and the CIA, with the backing of Congress, sponsored Puppeteors fade into the background once the p Washirigton psychic Anne Gehman ‘cautions | w 10 aghington Times 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 “migh’ ised to jam enemy .computers trigger nuclear wea pacitate weapons and, vehicles.” It said. “one suggested application” 7 was to form, a. battalion of “warrior. - ” year under the umbrella of the Marionette: Performance Festival Francais. If the other two compa- | nies are as inventive and awe- inspiring, you:should make a point of pulling strings to go see them all. Although billed as ‘app - for both adults and chil youngsters may not have. the pa- tience or attention span for.a show that.evalves in such delicate strokes and tiny touches. Instead, Approved For Release 2001/03/26 : ‘CIA- RDP96- -boreTReooneonene27 : monks” who could exert long- - distance influence over ‘enemy per- _ sonnel. The cutting edge currently i is fo- cused on‘less.spectacular goals, the abilities of people to foresee coming.’ Face” manages the more diffictil achievement. of “transforming adults, at least those - who are willing to-accept the ex- perience, into children. The stage of the modern Maison Francaise auditor ium i 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.ac cooperative’ viewe ‘is the: slightest. squint and.the pt ippets are At one point, ‘Miss Nicolas care- ' fully takes a puppet of an old woman out:of a wicker basket, lays -it down on 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. fears that today’s television-trained ~ creatures. Bululu strips puppetry - down to its essencé, a feat well il- lustrated by the opening scene of.a . ‘see PUPPETS, page ES —
ane Hastem Salon (2025 ?lace NW) in uponAP SRO V ly was intended to be ion venture to Mrs. Has- tigtime gallery on Seventh But as lease problems rer to close the Seventh space last December, the of regular monthly exhibi- ow has fallen to the salon. salon will continue to func- mewhat differently froma Her son and the salon’s di- Hotel Terminus” NR (descriptions of Holocaust 8S) victims, colleagues, employers, mtances, observers of Klaus CTION: Directed, researched 2>duced by Marcel Ophuls, ive-produced by John S. ran, Hamilton Fish and Peter » edited by Albert Jurgenson atherine Zins, associate ser Bernard Farrel, with Memory released by the Samuel vyn Company . 4% hours plus a brief nission E: Cineplex Odeon Circle Outer -er, 4849 Wisconsin Ave. NW I: Opens Friday HUM RATING: FOUR STARS b, his bodyguard in Bolivia, his >ney in France, his U.S. employ- -n the postwar Counter Intelli- ze Corps who used and pro- 2d Barbie for his information -ommunists. Ir. Ophuls also talked with Bar- 3 victims who have harrowing nories of his torture methods in ms, with journalists ‘and Nazi ters who tracked Barbie, with -istance leaders, Auschwitz sur- ors, Bolivian authorities and des of others who knew Barbie Knew of him. —~ rhey 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 aA less of Mr. Ophuls’ words. and aug face on screen, through Feb. 11, might inspire edi orReleasd'2004/03/26. WG RDRSE6-00%87R000200080027e62ri0n for atmos- women are depicted in art has be- come a subject of intense debate and analysis over the past decade, and women are Ms, Fricdman’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 disjuncuon Irom ute suti canoe -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. PSYCHIC From page E1 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 petting the little turrets around the building .. long windows in a row quite high .. aheavy 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 15 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 balis 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 asa 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 anew 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 work at Pririceton, SRI and San Antonio. Mr. Truzzi takes amore positive _. view. He says scientists prefer to de scribe test results as “anomalies,” o - 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 it foundations.” _. irs. Gehman, a board rr: 2mber c the National Spiritualist Associatic of Churches, whe charges a min mum “gift” of $100 for a 60-minu: session and who says she has-mar people from Capitol Hill among he clients, believes that she can cor municate with “those who have go through the process of death,” and certain situations can heal and ber 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 pheno) 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.”