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...frontier posts, abandoned, are being dismantled; police and customs officials have disappeared, and not even a speed bump slows traffic between the two Germanys. The Berlin Wall is all but gone, its absence a daily wonder. Most of the 108 streets blocked off in the city in 1961 have been reopened, all guards and controls removed. A drive along the old Wall trace is a journey in discovery: neighborhoods rejoined, old acquaintances renewed. Children frolic among the abandoned guard towers of the former death strip, the resident rabbits scampering for cover -- the only victims of unification. Traffic jams form...
...drive him crazy so he'll attempt suicide. He obliges only to the extent of lapsing (darn the luck) into a catatonic state, which is only the beginning of the wife's comeuppance. In Buried Alive (USA) another scheming housewife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) conspires with her doctor lover to bump off her husband with poison. Again the plan goes awry: she gives him too small a dose, and the authorities only think he's dead. What follows is Poe- etic justice...
...energy as Susan, and though she garbles some lines at the microphone, her delivery is well targeted. Bina Martin clomps convincingly through her role as tragi-comic Sally. Her porcelain face betrays just the right amount of suffering. The women do well in the go-go dances, as they bump and grind chairs on stage to the tune of some mean music; their opportunities to do so are unfortunately limited...
...Murphy supporters downplayed the poll's results, attributing Silber's rise to a "media bump" from the two-week, $200,000 television advertising campaign he began in early April...
Harvard Captain Mark Leschly rallied from a first-set deficit to bump off his Hawkeye opponent at third singles, giving Harvard a 3-0 lead in the match...