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Chris Keyser, in the crucial role of John Proctor, carries this approach vigorously to its full implications. Proctor, an upright but far from blameless Salem farmer, is tortured by the need to prove to himself and to his truly unstained wife Elizabeth that he is, in fact, a good man. As the witch trials become a raging mania in Salem, Proctor becomes inextricably involved, dragging all his past failings to light--including his liaison a year before with Abigail Williams, the girl accusing the Salem women of witchcraft--but can finally do nothing except die for his beliefs...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Fire and Ice | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...images--images that draw power not so much from their unexpectedness as from the fear and loathing they convey. The LSD-scarred businessman in "Thirty Spot, Fifteen Back on Either Side" stands helpless in the authoritative presence of a "jade-green reporter like a blade of metal grass thrust upright between the harsh lines of the grip's shouting..a hornet prowling the air." As she enters she checks a mirror, "parting her lips roughly with two blood-colored fingernails and revealing her teeth...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Expository Fantasy | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

...piece was taken off view for conservation purposes," Susannah J. Fabling, assistant director of the Fogg Museum, said yesterday. She added that the statue needs to be rewelded between its lower and upright portions...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Moved for a Week of Repairs, Moore Sculpture 'Disappears' | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

...captain Mike Rapposelli, managed to keep South out of the end zone for the rest of the half--which ended 7-3. Leverett scored with under a minute left when Peter Martin kicked a wind-aided but nevertheless spectacular 42-yard field goal that ricocheted in off the left upright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quincy, South, and Winthrop Victorious | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

...drowned out by the roar of two camouflaged MiG-21s streaking toward targets upcountry. Outside, a truck goes by with two Soviet soldiers in the back. They wear wide-brimmed khaki ranger hats and olive-drab bulletproof vests, and they hold their Kalashnikov assault rifles at the ready, barrels upright, on their knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: In the Capital of a Quagmire | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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