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JACOB'S LADDER. Vietnam vet Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is seeing things: whirling heads, killer cars, villains everywhere. Is he a conspiracy victim? Or is he dead? And if so, will any moviegoer care? Adrian Lyne's revved-up spook show plays like a Twilight Zone episode on steroids...
...since at one point he is afforded a promising glimpse of the afterlife, we are reminded of Ghost (another effort by the same screenwriter, Bruce Joel Rubin), which one fervently hopes is not going to set the style for the '90s. In other words, director Adrian Lyne has encapsulated the cliches of three decades in a single dreadful and hysterical movie. This may be of interest to film students, who can learn from Jacob's Ladder everything they need to know about how not to make a movie. But ordinary audiences are advised to pass...
...each case, eight diplomats and three journalists were expelled, Lyne said. Each group was given 14 days to leave the country...
Jeremy Harris of the British Broadcasting Corp., Ian Glover-James of Independent Television News and Angus Roxburgh of the Sunday Times of London also were given two weeks to leave the Soviet Union, Lyne said...
Britain also declared on Friday that three former Soviet Embassy workers, who already have completed their tours, were not welcome back, Lyne said. The Soviets responded by declaring three former British Embassy staff members "persona non grata," he said...