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After a brief prologue--nasty, brutish, and short--we find ourselves in Stockton. Massachusetts in 1692, "at the height of the Puritan witch craze." Protagonist Nicholas Flatford (Jeff Rosen), a Puritan with a taste for sentiment and his own bad poetry, has just been given an ultimatum by Martha Coftin (Debra Staniunas), his something-more-than-shrewish wife: five days to clean up his act and cut out the poetry, or else. A reasonable request. "Can't you talk of something else besides the weather, vegetables, and domestic animals?" Nicholas demands, as he proceeds to undertake this task with twice...

Author: By Yoon SUN Lee, | Title: The Devil Made Me Do It | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

Despite his medium height (5 ft. 8 in.), Pickens was a star guard on the Amarillo High basketball team. During the semifinal round of a state tournament, his shooting helped keep his team in the game, even though he and his teammates were much shorter than the opposition. At the last time-out, Pickens bounded onto a bench and exhorted, "Guys, I think we've got 'em! Just keep playing the way you have been!" Unfortunately for biographers, the final result was a one-point loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Times for T. Boone Pickens | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...thirds the size of the U.S. Three years ago, policemen noticed that relatively primitive Indians were suddenly sporting modern clothes and traveling in motorboats. The peasants, they learned, had been pressured by Colombians into cultivating epadu, a shrubby small tree that can grow in the forest and attain a height of 10 ft. Epadu contains about 40% less active alkaloid than the more common coca variety cultivated in the Andes and yields less pure cocaine per kilo. But it costs the trafficker 60% less to buy and can sprout as many as 30 shoots, often very rapidly. "It's easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting the Cocaine Wars | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

Meanwhile, fellow freshman still Mohler continued to impress last weekend. Though he scored just one point, Mohler gave the Crimson some extra height and some defensive help...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: A Winning Tradition to Rival the Titanic's | 2/13/1985 | See Source »

...considered in this mesh of movements. The women even use their long hair to heighten the effort of throwing, their torsos over and to straightening up. Against these curves and contractions, Donna Wood appears for a solo. She is one of Ailey's most famous dancxers; her towering height and incredible talent create a magical aura around her. She is able and to turn leap while keeping her body as straight as a spear. Her arms seem to out the air with their sharpness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Now That's Really Dancing | 2/8/1985 | See Source »

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