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...criminally unfair to those who haven't seen Deathtrap in either its play or movie form to reveal much more of the plot. Suffice it to say, reversal builds on reversal, a persistently wacky character arrives on the scene in the shape of, of all things, a Dutch psychic named Helga Tendorp, and things not only go bump in the night--they also scream and menace various characters with blunt objects...
...Sleuth, another closed-room, twist-filled thriller, and unquestionably loses out in the comparison. But with intricate plot twists (which unfortunately tend to fizzle toward the end), and some snappy dialogue, it makes a fair attempt at matching the wit and elegance of Shaffer's play. Tendorp, the psychic, adds a nice comic touch by dropping by to see Sidney at all the wrong times, and prophesying ominously about a dangerous playwright named "Smith-Collona." Cannon is suitably daffy as the gushing Myra, and Reeve is, well, a hunk. Caine, who played Reeve's younger man to Laurence Olivier...
...advice of a Connecticut psychic, police in Beverly, Mass., will begin to search a nearby lake next week for Joan L Webster a student at the Graduate School of Design missing for five months...
Richards said he received the tip to check the lake from 78-year0old Loretta Johnson, who three weeks ago told him she had strong psychic feelings when she saw Webster's photograph in a newspaper...
...examined, explained, dismantled. But how equipped for the task is someone who is deeply offended by the myth, someone so aghast that he almost ends up belittling its real impact? The Kennedy myth had, and continues to have, a strong impact on people, evidence that it fills some important psychic need. Although Wills' book is excellent for its assessment of the Kennedys' lasting, and crippling effect on American politics, it is on too high a moral plane to ever come down and grapple with the myth on its own terms. He derides the idea of heroes in the White House...