Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three students surprised a group of alleged bicycle thieves in front of Dunster House Tuesday night and subdued one suspect, who was later released by the Harvard police when the students declined to file a complaint against the suspect...
...speculation that the type II herpes may be linked to genital cancers in humans. "It's like finding a guy with a gun in a building where a murder has been committed," says Alvin Glasky of Newport Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., the firm that developed isoprinosine. "The gunman is suspect, but you have to prove that he pulled the trigger...
...part of their prevention efforts, some squads have adopted near-vigilante tactics. In East Lansing, Mich., members of the rape crisis center are said to have scrawled "rapist" on a suspect's car, spray-painted the word in red across a front porch, and made late-night warning telephone calls. In Los Angeles, the squad has adopted a counter-harassing strategy: when a woman called to complain that a neighbor followed her whenever she went out, squad members followed the follower for three days. That was enough to make him change his ways...
...Regent, his assistant, the Bailiff, and Professors Gaspar, Melchior, and Balthazar conspire to kill off one of the Prophets so that the other can take over. But their plan miscarries, and both Prophets as well as all of the plotters except the Bailiff end up dead. As you may suspect, the parallel to the original Christ story is a little like a smack in the face. Dramatically, though, it's a better play than Repeat Performance: there is one very good chase scene, and a few of the characters have a chance to become appealing individuals...
...mean to be hard on Mrozek. Most of my criticisms deal with problems that are bothersome in print, and I suspect that they may disappear or at least diminish on stage. If I were to point out a single damning fault, it would be that the situations are not open-ended enough. Once we learn the circumstances, we know everything. There is character revelation, but no character development. Curiously enough, this means that the endings themselves are too open--that is, the plays tend to trail off rather than ending definitively. When Mrozek does try to create a real ending...