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sensory-deprivation

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  • • One night, he and fellow Brat-Packer Andrew McCarthy traipsed through a Chicago ghetto on their search for a sensory-deprivation tank -- hanging there naked in the water, Lowe almost lost his mind "as I panic in the claustrophobic darkness."

    Rob Lowe Memoir Dishes Dirt 2011

  • Take his "Psycho Tank" (1999), in which visitors float inside a sensory-deprivation tank, or "Light Room" (2008), which employs panels of programmed flashing lights to engineer the sensation that the space around the viewer is rotating.

    Autumn Ideas On the Walls Sameer Reddy 2011

  • He was ground commander of Canadian Forces in 2006 -- and evidently spent his time in a sensory-deprivation tank.

    Torturegate: the bottomless pit 2009

  • He was ground commander of Canadian Forces in 2006 -- and evidently spent his time in a sensory-deprivation tank.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • “They signed on to be guests,” I said, “but not to a sensory-deprivation environment with no water and 120-degree temperatures.”

    Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010

  • Freedom comes from the man who dissed Oprah, complained that the Tony-winning musical Spring Awakening was a bastardization of the 1891 Frank Wedekind play (which Franzen himself had recently translated from the German), called book critic Michiko Kakutani "the stupidest person in New York," and claimed such affectations as writing in an earmuff-and-blindfold-equipped sensory-deprivation chamber.

    The Man We Knew Too Much 2010

  • “They signed on to be guests,” I said, “but not to a sensory-deprivation environment with no water and 120-degree temperatures.”

    Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010

  • “They signed on to be guests,” I said, “but not to a sensory-deprivation environment with no water and 120-degree temperatures.”

    Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010

  • During sensory-deprivation re-inhabitation one time, she squeaked through tears, "Why won't you let me jump out of the crib?"

    Suz Redfearn: My Child, the Chupacabra 2009

  • Visit the secret sensory-deprivation chamber early and often.

    Suz Redfearn: Cinderella Bitch Slap 2009

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