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Masters of suggestion.
Number one: Doctor Dean talking slowly, deeply, using his voice like a vibrator. The heads poise and then
relax. Deeper and deeper: sleep. Insanity.
Number two: All those young votes and nobody knows for whom. Phi Alpha Delta of the law school invited Ed
Butler and Pete Wilson, San Diego mayoral candidates, to a debate. They danced verbally— a dip and duck
here, a lunge and grasp there. The younger Wilson won the students' straw vote and the general election two
weeks later, a flurry of feather-quick words later.
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