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...travel and communications imposed special hardships. Rumors flourished?that Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the Primate of Poland, had been arrested, that a top Solidarity leader had committed suicide???and could not be checked. Messages about sicknesses and funerals could not be sent. "I will die now," said a woman in Warsaw matter-of-factly. She had been scheduled for brain surgery in the U.S. this week, and now could not leave. At her side, her doctor sadly agreed. Because of the curfew, nurses and doctors could keep their hospitals open 24 hours a day only by taking up residence inside. Said...
...going to die in revolutionary suicide???with dignity and honor.' They were both black, maybe 19 or 20. I got the impression that perhaps they were sent down...
Judy's emotional problems?her drinking bouts and her numerous attempts at suicide???were less easily laughed off. But again, at least according to Liza, they are worse in the telling than they were in fact. At home in Los Angeles, Judy would often take a few aspirins, lock the bedroom door and announce that she was committing suicide. On to the act after the third or fourth time, Liza would merely borrow the clippers from the gardener and snip a hole in the window screen so that she could climb in. Once inside, she would try to talk...
...confidence of militant Arabs and, more crucially, of his own army. At the same time, it is doubtful whether he could long remain in power if he led the Arabs into another round and lost. He no longer shares power in Egypt with General Abdel Hakim Amer, who committed suicide???or so the government said?after the 1967 war, and so Nasser could not again place the blame for defeat on the army. Since 1967, he has had personal control of Egypt's military, and now he is alone at the top, without a scapegoat...
...talkie he pulls a little boy out of a French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman, but he tells the little boy he is an antiquarian. That makes the audience cry. The little boy's mother is dead?she committed suicide???so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English, but the better ones are French?"Les Ananas" and "Valentine." Best shot: young David...