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Convinced that his son has been brainwashed, programmed like a computer, the distraught father Allan (John McMartin) hires a deprogrammer to restore Shelley to his precult self. The duel of wits, will and passion between the boy and the deprogrammer, Balthazar (Anthony Zerbe), forms the core of this eruptively theatrical play. Echoes of Equus resound-of the boy who blinded horses he took to be gods, of the psychiatrist who cured...
...that each of the openers doesn't have its own distinct flavor. In '79, the crowd was talking mostly about the disappointment of the year before, and Rice. Evans and Lynn all homered. Two years ago, the star was Eckersley in a close 3-1 pitchers' duel...
Moderates duel with the right as El Salvador's election nears...
...teen-age schoolgirls violate the sanctity of the room and go AWOL from their parents' code by valiantly swigging a blend of gin, vodka and Fresca. In a duel of social proprieties, a daughter defies her mother's edict that she attend a dance that will enhance her status in the Junior League and opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures...
Because the three strong individual performances, each fencer enters a final 24-man field in his respective division. The concluding two days of the tournament will become "an endurance test," according to Marshall, as each Crimson fencer prepares to duel all other 23 finalists. Each contestant will participate in 15 matches today and eight on Thursday. The swordsmen compiling the best overall record in each dueling category will be declared the victors...