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Not in the ways that psychics claim to do it, by gaining access to the warm streams of consciousness that fill every individual’s experience, or in the ways that mentalists claim to do it, by pulling a thought out of your head at will.
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Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
Next, each woman sat down with Zach one at a time as the mentalist gave them readings.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
Based on William Lindsay Gresham's eponymous novel, Nightmare Alley follows a hapless carnival worker, played by Bradley Cooper, who builds a career beyond the sideshow by passing himself off as a mentalist to hustle others.
—Hannah Kerns, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
Another, from the mid-nineteen-twenties, shows him as a disembodied shaved head, spoofing the image of Jesus on the Veil of Veronica while suggesting the mentalist-magicians’ posters of the period.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
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Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
Next, each woman sat down with Zach one at a time as the mentalist gave them readings.
—Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2023
Based on William Lindsay Gresham's eponymous novel, Nightmare Alley follows a hapless carnival worker, played by Bradley Cooper, who builds a career beyond the sideshow by passing himself off as a mentalist to hustle others.
—Hannah Kerns, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
Another, from the mid-nineteen-twenties, shows him as a disembodied shaved head, spoofing the image of Jesus on the Veil of Veronica while suggesting the mentalist-magicians’ posters of the period.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
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