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...last week of her troubled friend Wayne Williams. Last spring, hours after Williams was first questioned by police about the murders of black youths, he phoned Blakely. "The game has got Wayne," to she come said to she an told end him. sometime, "Before you get hurt, will you confess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinning a Web of Evidence | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

...each actor manages to create an individual personality and consistently convey it. And the other actors on whom the show's believability rides--Maja Hellmold as Abigail, Jennifer Devine as Proctor's wife Elizabeth, and Jay Mattlin as Danforth, condemning to death by hanging all those who do not confess they are guilty of witchcraft--flesh out each role to the fullest. The small room echoes, and candlesticks shake as Mattlin, in a phenomenal portrayal of conscientiousness and religious fervor turned fanatical, forces everyone in the courtroom to bend to his will by pure dominance of personality...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fire and Ice | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

Under rigidly applied collectivism, the country's peasants were relentlessly encouraged to follow such Utopian precepts as "Love the commune as you would love your own home." In these more realistic times, Chinese agricultural officials confess that such precepts were unworkable. "The speed of development in the past was not very fast," admits Peking Ministry of Agriculture Official Liu Xu-mao. It seems to have accelerated now that China's peasants no longer must eat out of one big communal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Revolution Down on the Farm | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...what do they do all that time out there if they are not leading cheers? Wiggle their extremities in front of a large crowd for the most part. That is still illegal in seven states, but I must confess that I would rather have them do that than really do their job because most cheers are just plain silly...

Author: By Howard N. Mead, | Title: Sideline Shenanigans | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

...settle out of court. One attorney expressing exasperation over what she considers to be a glorified debate over greasy french fries says she hopes the case ends differently: Wouldn't it be great to see Ronald McDonald stand up in the back of the courtroom and yell, "I confess...

Author: By James A. Star, | Title: Ronald McDonald on Trial | 10/1/1981 | See Source »

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