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...Friasi then spotted a sailor aboard a lifeboat and dropped a 30-ft. rope ladder. Drained of his strength after 22 hours in the howling storm, the crewman struggled slowly up the ladder. Only a few feet from safety, he was struck by a mountainous wave and lost in the water...
Since November, Mr. Reagan has been engaged in a tug-of-war with political adversaries and determined truth-seekers. Should the president now let go of his end, the rope will go slack, and his antagonists will land in a heap. What Mr. Reagan forfeits in false pride he would gain in popular sympathy...
...strong rebel forces, but it was a start. "During the cease-fire, we kept the sword sharpened," vowed a high-ranking officer. "Now we will use it." He described the President as a "lot smarter than we gave her credit for. She gave the Communists enough rope, and they hanged themselves. They planned to seize power without a major battle. Now they will have to fight." Others were less impressed with Aquino's handling of the rebels. "She gave them a status they never earned," snapped a disgruntled officer. "It was like surrender. Marcos showed us the arrogance of corruption...
Hitchcock's Rope begins with a brutal murder performed by two homoerotic psychopaths. Dead of Winter could be the events leading up to that crime. Dr. Lewis (Jan Rubes) is an elderly psychiatrist; Mr. Murray (Roddy McDowall) is his aide-de-camp in blackmailing. As part of their scheme to defraud a wealthy ( woman, they hire an actress, Katie McGovern (Mary Steenburgen), to impersonate the woman's dead sister. Katie doesn't realize she is taping a video ransom note. Ever conscientious, she tells her sly captors, "I'm gonna take a beat after the line 'There was blood everywhere...
...told them that I would like to know if there were drugs in my urine as well. I had heard of drugs in banana peels and cabbage and rope, but I had never heard about drugs in urine. I said that in my day such news would have caused a big stir...