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...themselves controlling the typing. Some of the news footage of Houben appears to show him and his therapist typing on his computer screen with his eyes closed. Earlier this week, Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, told The Associated Press that Houben's communication was "Ouija board stuff. It's been discredited time and time again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awaking from a Coma: What Did the Doctors Miss? | 11/28/2009 | See Source »

...much as bought a ticket for today's shows, and are therefore based only on Friday and Saturday ticket sales. The prediction of final weekend grosses thus involve much entrail-reading, analysis of the success of earlier films in the same genre and the possible use of Ouija boards. The tense to be used in these stories really shouldn't be the past ("won") but the future perfect ("will have") or, more cautiously, the conditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: The Hangover Throws Up | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

CRITIC'S PICKS: Here's your TIME reviewer's annotated Oscar ballot. But these predictions (not preferences) come with a caveat: Don't bet your bailout bundle on "expert" opinions. You'd do just as well with a Ouija board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Oscars Became the Emmys | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Bedlam in Goliath.” You can pretty much always count on The Mars Volta to do something you can’t understand, be it Latinate lyrics or utterly insane concept albums like this one. “Bedlam” took its inspiration from a Ouija board and the contact with the dead it supposedly facilitates. Tracks like “Ouroboros” and “Askepios,” however, seem to make reference to figures in Ancient Greek lore. Though I have yet to decipher the connection between the biblical Goliath and these...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Four Musical References to the Arcane | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...this presidential-election year, filmmakers are peppering the multiplex electorate with pictures that take sides. Oliver Stone is finishing up W, a biopic of President Bush. The documentary Stealing America: Vote by Vote, already playing in some cities, argues that voting machines are hardly more accurate than Ouija boards. There are even a couple of right-wing movies, which are almost illegal in Hollywood: An American Carol, an anti--Michael Moore comedy from David Zucker of the Airplane! and Naked Gun series, and Hype: The Obama Effect, from anti-Clinton provocateur David Bossie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Election, Stupid | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

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