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Still, everything is done with respect for the science-fiction genre, and the best action scenes are as confoundedly enthralling as sequences in old Saturday serials. The special effects-including a peppy but menacing space pet, and the incineration of a planet and assorted phenomena among the stars-are lovingly rendered and spectacular within the modest means available. The cast is recruited mostly from the ranks of nonprofessionals, and Co-Writer O'Bannon appears in a rather hefty supporting part. He also functioned as film editor and production designer, while Producer-Director Carpenter took time out to write...
...eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like his friend Houdini, Dunninger was a debunker of occult phenomena who modestly assessed his own skills: "Any three-year-old could do it -with 30 years' practice...
...PNAS and the Annals of Internal Medicine) dismissed the case as an "embarrassing, but isolated" incident. Some, like Watson, linked, "transfer factor" to a whole chain of precedents in the history of science. "There are many claims in the literature on transfer factor that, like lots of other bizarre phenomena in the past, haven't panned out--but just because a lot of people find it hard to believe is no reason for not putting it forward," he opined...
Such usage, Fairlie asserts, simplifies social phenomena in such a way as to isolate and segregate: thus, for example, " 'ethnics' are separated from nonethnics...the words themselves put people in 'ghettos,' and freeze them at opposite poles. It is in this way that we are manipulated by the words we tolerate and use." Fairlie echoes Orwell's warning against allowing abstract words to choose our thought and disguise from us the real meaning of what we want to say. But Fairlie is quick to differ with the author of "Politics and the English Language,""I have never been impressed with...
...conditions of sensory shielding." But to the world of parapsychology, publication of the paper, the first claimed proof of extrasensory powers to have appeared in that prestigious scientific journal for many years, was nothing short of a sensation. Parapsychologists and others who believe in the existence of such psychic phenomena as telepathy, psychokinesis and precognition were jubilant; in their view, Nature had bestowed upon them the recognition and respectability that the scientific establishment has so long withheld. Some skeptics were dismayed; they felt the mere publication of the report in Nature would lend legitimacy to many of the hotly disputed...