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Until science adopts the same rigorous testing procedures that are applied to any other investigation, the pursuit of any possible "psi" effect will meet with serious and legitimate objections. Miracle workers will continue to produce "paranormal" ghost pictures, bend nails and float objects in midair. Scientists will be confused until they realize that they are incapable of detecting chicanery without expert assistance...
That faith is nowhere more evident than in the U.S.S.R., which has been beset in recent years with controversial sensitives. One, Ninel Kulagina, was appraised as capable of causing objects to float in midair. As Martin Gardner notes, "She is a pretty, plump, dark-eyed little charlatan who took the stage name of Ninel because it is Lenin spelled backward. She is no more a sensitive than Kreskin, and like that amiable American television humbug, she is basically show biz." Indeed, Ninel has been caught cheating more than once by Soviet Establishment scientists...
...fair. Doyle would never have left us hanging in midair, slowly twisting in the wind! I'll never read Sherlock Holmes by Kanfer again...
Still, the readjustment to gravity was not always easy. Lousma, for example, accidentally let a bottle of aftershave lotion smash on the bathroom floor when he momentarily forgot that he could no longer let the bottle hang in midair, as he could in the zero gravity aboard Skylab. Garriott had an even more unusual experience; he lost his balance on his first evening back home when his wife turned off the lights as they were going upstairs to bed. "I can't stand up unless I have a visual reference," he complained. Helen Garriott flicked the lights back...
Insofar as this play has a psycho logical terrain, it is limbo. Symbolically, a spiral staircase on the stage ends in midair, leading nowhere. Two actors a brother (Michael York) and a sister (Cara Duff-MacCormick) have been deserted by the rest of their company on a tour of some unnamed country. In panic they improvise "The Two Character Play," a misty memory of a long-past family life in a southern U.S. city that culminated in the murder of their mother by their father and his suicide...