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Remembering Satan is a scary but true crime tale...
Lawrence Wright's Remembering Satan (Knopf; 205 pages; $22) seems likely to / be considered the most powerful and disturbing true crime narrative to appear since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. But what was the crime? Certainly it was not satanic abuse, says Wright, a New Yorker reporter, although a man sits in jail for confessing to just that...
...stark but durable set (designed by Travis) reflects the simple strength of characters like John Proctor (Michael Efron), who is turned into an enemy of the state, fighting charges of conspiring with Satan. He is clearly innocent but the lies build up against him. Out of personal vengeance, his former lover Abigail Williams (Jessica Walling) implicates him as a channeler in devils. She has begun an elaborate lie to save herself from the same charges she lodges against others...
Sure, I have the purist's usual laundry list of complaints. The designated hitter, artificial turf and domed stadiums are all incarnations of Satan himself. World series games telecast late at night exclude the youngest generation, crippling baseball's future popularity. This year, however, a larger crisis looms...
Once again, The Big Red Machine was the enemy. Gorbachev wasn't a man of reform, he was Satan with a birth mark, and the players were his disciples, carrying out his orders for the Dark Side...