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Instead of just portraying Myra as a wife who is legitimately afraid of her husband's potential for evil, Catherine Robe plays Mrs. Bruhl with the wacky enthusiasm of Jerry Lewis. Robe incessantly grabs at her pearls, fiddles with her knitting needles and organizes and reorganizes liquor decanters as if these were the international signs for being nervous. Her lack of subtlety impairs her delivery as she swallows most of her lines, confusing the scenes that she is in. When Mrs. Bruhl does meet her "plot twist", the audience is more relieved than shocked...

Author: By Ariel Foxman, | Title: Worth Getting Caught In Thrilling Deathtrap | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...might focus as appropriately on alcohol as on movies. State police say that evening he and his friend Dean Bartlett (who suffered substantial injuries but will survive) had consumed enough beer to "impair their mental functioning." But laws on that exist already -- the police are searching for whoever sold liquor to two teenagers in a state where the drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lie Down in Darkness | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...several crucial items that surfaced only after Congress approved the project. The superconducting magnets had to be designed a second time after the first try failed. And in June, Energy Department investigators reported that employees were living it up at SSC's Dallas headquarters, freely spending taxpayers' money on liquor, lavish parties and office decor ($56,000 went for potted plants). Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary fired the University Research Association, the nonprofit consortium running the project, for failure to track costs and schedules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The $2 Billion Hole | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Next stop: Chef Chow's, high noon. After a luncheon of lo mein and liquor, the savvy prep school kid stumbles around the Square, seeking other rebels. They loudly congratulate each other for being so damn cool. The lucky few who have acquired bottles of hard alcohol usually don't last past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Better Dead than Head | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

Drop this magazine and run to the liquor store.Starting Saturday, the HUPD will seal off the Yardand check student IDs. The purpose of this addedmeasure of protection is to prevent hordes ofpolar-fleeced, loafer-clad, baseball-capped,crew-fans-for-a-weekend from entering and cloggingthe halls of Harvard, but it's also possible thatyour friends Jack Daniels and Johnnie Walker mightget stopped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Better Dead than Head | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

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