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...interesting twist is added to the already twisted scenario by a wandering Plague of Madness (Bess Wohl). She flits across the stage, effecting Ovidian metamorphoses among the characters, and uttering cryptically: "I come to the fruits and to the fishes. I come to the flatterer and to the suffering hermit...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Weak Structure, Ding Dong Chimes | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

...course, what these latter Black scholars lack is what Jeffries possesses in abundance--an ideological ax to grind, and with a twist that is usually anti-Semitic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kilson Criticizes U. Mass Frat, Mansfield | 11/20/1992 | See Source »

...simple twist of the combination knob opened nearly half of the boxes yesterday, employees said...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: First-Year Mailboxes Tested | 11/18/1992 | See Source »

...should be honest. I didn't come to save my soul, which is probably a good thing, because Buddhists don't believe souls exist. I came to further my recent interest in Yoga, to twist my body into a pretzel in the middle of the woods, and to maybe get a little religion out of the whole thing. It was touted as a "Zen yoga" weekend, after...

Author: By M.k. Hoffman, | Title: Endpaper | 11/12/1992 | See Source »

...SEEMED THE CLASSIC CATCH-22 OF RAPE, WITH AN age of AIDS twist: a woman who protects her life by cooperating with her assailant -- in this case by offering him a condom -- risks the charge that she invited the assault. In Austin, Texas, the first grand jury that heard the case against Joel Rene Valdez may have concluded just that, refusing to bring charges against Valdez, who wielded a knife during the attack. Valdez apparently told the police -- and the local media -- that because his alleged victim had the presence of mind to provide him with a prophylactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas, A Grim Question of Survival | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

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