Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showered her sons with the proceeds from her $10 million tobacco fortune, Margaret Hitchcock Benson lived in fear of them. There were constant fights and drugs and a nightmarish unhappiness that led her to believe that one or another of them was stealing her funds and wanted her dead...
...says Betsy, was she completely shocked by the news. "He's a very secret person. He doesn't pry in my life and I don't pry in his. And it's worth it. Look at the paintings. Oh God! The paintings are remarkable. I almost dropped dead because of the quality of the work and how many there were...
...years is probably the most important proof of the fact that our feelings of belonging together are as strong today as in the past." On the Eastern side, officials insist that the "German question" is closed forever and denounce any suggestion of reunification. But the longing is not dead among the population. A visitor to East Berlin was consulting a city map on a park bench when an elderly woman asked if she could look. "We can't get maps that show the West," she explained, "and I just wanted to see the whole thing again...
Director Cronenberg (The Brood, The Dead Zone) tells this story with no compromise but plenty of intelligent compassion. In the film's first half, the edgy romantic comedy is beguiling, especially as played by Goldblum and Davis, two deft charmers who inhabit their roles as if they have comfortably lived there forever. The Faustian tragedy of the second half is underscored by some revolting and riveting special effects. Watch closely for Brundlefly's agile wall climbing. Close your eyes during the hallucinatory sequence in which Cronenberg, as an obstetrician, helps Veronica give birth to a 20-in.-long bouncing baby...
...Last week at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, the former Government quality-control inspector, who was 54, suffered a massive stroke. Tuesday morning he was discovered unconscious with labored breathing; 30 hours later his breathing had stopped for good. With Schroeder's family gathered round, doctors pronounced him dead, but there remained a last grim task: to turn off the pneumatically driven device that had kept him alive for 20 months. Surgeon William DeVries put his hand on the chrome key in the front of the refrigerator-size air console; then Schroeder's wife Margaret and their six children...