“The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.” HumansIdeasCountryStatesBodyUniverseUnitedPracticeUnited StatesCenturyIncludingIllnessSpreadHuman BodyAustralianFluidHealerMagnetic18th Century Author:Karen Abbott
“A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and eternal instinct to always want most what we'll never have.” WantHumansDesireHalfCenturyEternalUnderstoodPerformancesRoseInstinctExploitsGypsy Author:Karen Abbott
