Word: esp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, this year I will not fall into the category of disillusioned sportswriters whose meager attempts at ESP crumble when conflicting results are recorded. Yes, this year no one will scoff at my inspirations. In fact, I'll stake my last Dunster Dollar on the flawlessness of my insight...
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...similarly sardonic conceits. But Levin, although he tries hard, has neither Shaffer's command of language nor his ability to make each epigram peculiarly illustrative of some aspect of character; Levin uses witticisms to fill pauses. To be fair, the script contains many very funny lines--assorted theater jokes, ESP jokes (one of the characters is psychic), a few bitchy asides that hit home--and the play succeeds more as a comedy than a thriller, but it is comedy of the most superficial kind. The last scene, which dissolves into a farcical exchange between the two characters left alive...
...Welles on the back, though, the theater has begun a matinee series of documentaries that shows great promise. Leni Reifenstahl's riveting, gripping and therefore horrifying Nazi propaganda film arrives this weekend. In the next cinema, Carl Jung gives a filmed interview and Dr. J.B. Rhine, expert on ESP, discusses clairvoyancy. Don't leave the regular matinee crowd to hold up the bottom on this new, needed format...
...small number of the other fans in the Garden, clearly felt outraged and cheated. But the wheels move fast under Joe Perkins; during half time he talked with both grapplers and convinced them to undertake a rematch for November 6. It's almost as if Joe Perkins had ESP: it's going to be a cage match, just what we had hoped. This reporter does not have any doubts about which will...