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...phenomena after hearing a 1922 lecture on the subject by Sherlock Holmes Creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rhine later helped establish one of the nation's first parapsychology laboratories, at Duke University. His 1934 book, Extra-Sensory Perception, documented laboratory-controlled demonstrations of clairvoyance and telepathy and made ESP a household term...
Bundling as defined by Webster's: an unmarried couple's occupying the same bed without undressing, esp. during courtship...
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...