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This time, however, Kevorkian (ghoulishly nicknamed Jack the Reaper) faced no immediate legal action, since the prosecutor in Oakland County, where all the deaths have taken place, declined to press homicide charges. Prosecutor Richard Thompson cited the fact that his past efforts have all been overturned by state courts. In the meantime, Kevorkian is free to pursue his suicide- assistance practice, unless the state legislature takes action. That seemed more likely last week, when Michigan lawmakers reacted to the latest death by finally moving toward passage of a bill that could criminalize all assisted suicides by next spring...
...night of ghastly last-minute appeals and strap-him-in-take-him- out action as double-murderer Robert Alton Harris flirts with cyanide and exhales death-row doggerel. (Close-up. Harris, macho-sardonic: "You can be a king or a street sweeper,/ But everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.") Back after this...
...different kinds of audiences. "I think the British invasion will happen again," predicts Mike Edwards, the lead singer of Jesus Jones. Fishbone combines an upside-your-head musical assault with some pointed lyrics. "Forgive us for we have no control or self-respect," goes Junkie's Prayer. "Grim reaper has cashed my life-savings check/ Thy rocketh and thy pipeth restoreth...
Unfortunately, many of the copycats deliver hokey, improbable scenarios with the depth of a shampoo commercial. The Grim Reaper and the fires of hell have been slickly supplanted by a blissful feel-good death in the form of reincarnation. Dying is depicted as a transitory state, at worst a move to a new neighborhood. "All these ghosts are young, attractive people," observes Scott Frank, writer of the forthcoming Dead Again, starring Andy Garcia. "Who wants to see old ghosts?" One notable exception will be The Rapture, an austere film, starring Mimi Rogers as a woman who murders her daughter...
...located. Most are in proper scale. Many maps include capitals, mountains and rivers. Some are festooned with whimsical touches. Ethel Weld drew a school of fish, blowing bubbles, off Montevideo. Alice Gearhart fashioned the lost city of Atlantis in one part of her map and, inexplicably, the Grim Reaper in another...