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Sexuality and swords--an ancient metaphor, and one that becomes tiresome about halfway through the evening. Yet it helps create a shaky, violent world in which fact and fiction, murder and loyalty, blur dangerously. When the king's party enter Macbeth's castle to spend the fateful night, young Donalbain...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Trouble in Scotland | 10/25/1980 | See Source »

He may charge $7,500 per case, but Ted Patrick, 50, says he has been hired more than 2,000 times as a professional abductor. His targets are converts to zealous faiths he calls "cults." He helps harangue them out of their new beliefs through "deprogramming." Mostly they have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cultnaper | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Changes also seemed to be brewing within the party ranks. The official press hinted at impending purges that would be aimed at "clearing from the party ranks those individuals who have given in to the temptations of an easier life and corruption." The notorious example that was held up was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Seething with Change | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

Undergraduates will express displeasure with the search process, begun two years ago when Meyerson announced his impending resignation, a reporter at the Daily Pennsylvanian said early this morning.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPenn Selection Prompts Protest | 9/16/1980 | See Source »

This expedition in mental archeology uncovers a lot more than that memory: it brings to the surface of Barrett's mind a collection of bizarre obsessions that are apparently Percy's as well. First, there is Barrett's notion that the presence or absence of Jews is a sign of...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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