Word: randy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holpuch and Smith combined for 39 points. Wendy Carle, the other senior co-captain, displayed the best single defensive effort of the year by stifling the Chiefs' star, Randi Zola, in the second half. Best of all, a guard combination, Boutillier and Hall, played with confidence and flair, tearing the Springfield press to shreds...
...member, Magician James ("The Amazing") Randi, has publicly duplicated Uri Geller's feats, such as key and spoon bending, without invoking paranormal forces. He has challenged the Israeli illusionist to submit to controlled tests of his powers, but Geller has not responded...
Pittsburgh Psychologist Randi Koeske contends that the culture created and now reinforces the stereotype of premenstrual irritability by overlooking women's positive feelings and focusing on negative ones. Her advice to women: "Learn to identify premenstrual physical changes as irrelevant to emotion." Some women add several pounds of fluid because of hormone changes. If so, says Koeske, "Say 'Water retention makes my tear ducts feel full,' not 'I am depressed and about...
What High School Senior Randi Lamkin, 17, did on her summer vacation comes down to a single big day. One morning last week, Randi and her friend Carol Jenks were floating off West Yarmouth, Mass., on a rubber raft. Pretty soon a wind came up and the girls went bobbing out to sea. Randi's father David, her brother Chuck and Chuck's friend Stan Sacks went out to rescue them in a motorboat, but the waves were so choppy that the boat was swamped. Then Senator Ted Kennedy's big sailboat hove into view. Said...
...people need a fraud they can believe in. Magic, with its cheerful promise of mountebankery, offers a kind of low comic relief. An audience that is fooled invariably laughs, delighted that its attention has been misdirected. To Magician-Historian Robert Lund, it is "a rebellion against science." To James Randi, it is "a sign that our society is still healthy. When people stop being enthralled by a magician who can make a lady vanish, it will mean that the world has lost its most precious possession: its sense of wonder...