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...needs to escalate into the play's most demanding scenes. Surely her approach is the one Director William Friedkin wanted; his work in films (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is notable for its harrowing power, not its subtlety. This leaves Max von Sydow, as the doctor, to prowl the set like a lion tamer confronting an unpredictable new beast. He need not worry. Bancroft's lioness isn't hungry enough to eat him. She has already devoured Kempinski's lamb of a play...
...last month of Christian Chapman, the American chargé d'affaires in Paris. It has been accused of sending hitmen to assassinate Washington's Ambassador to Italy Maxwell Rabb. And now U.S. intelligence authorities are investigating a report that agents of Muammar Gaddafi may be on the prowl for even bigger targets: President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George Bush, Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger...
Some folk tales are based at least partly on fact. What New Yorker has not heard of the giant alligators that prowl the city's sewer system, descendants of smaller ones brought home from Florida vacations and flushed down the toilet? Brunvand cites evidence that a few underground gators may have existed. Yet a modern legend's staying power seems to have little to do with its veracity. Since the late 1960s, there have been reports from around the country of shoppers in discount stores being bitten by poisonous snakes or insects hidden in some piece of imported...
Europe offered Irving a large slice of the bohemian life. He explored by car and motorcycle, met painters and poets, worked out in gyms with burly grapplers who grunted in Slavic. He also met a man with an old trained bear, an animal that would prowl his future books...
Michigan is only one of many regions around the U.S. where geologists and petroleum engineers are on the prowl for fuel. In Arizona and Appalachia, in New York and North Carolina, wildcatters and exploration teams are in breakneck competition to cash in on the energy bonanza brought on by the ever escalating prices of both oil and natural gas. Last year domestic drilling surged by 22%. In March alone, 6,404 wells were dug in the U.S., 650 more than during the same month of the year before...