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...taxi driver heard the shots and immediately called for help. When police arrived, Mrs. Palme, herself grazed across the back by a bullet, said, "Don't you recognize me? My Olof has been shot." Within minutes Palme was rushed to Sabbatsberg Hospital, where doctors struggled in vain to keep him alive. At six minutes past midnight Saturday morning he was declared dead. Palme thus became the first Swedish leader to be killed since King Gustav III was shot to death at a masked ball at Stockholm's opera house...
...characters here can stake a claim to too much sympathy. Together they make up a collection of overgrown children. Hannah's husband Eliot (Michael Caine) longs for his wife's youngest sister (Barbara Hershey); her mother, an actress, is a boozy old flirt; her actor father is a vain failure, and rounding out this lot is Hannah's other sister, the cranky Holly (Diane Wiest...
Since he took over after Tramiel's exit, Smith has been scrambling in vain to bring out a successful follow-up to the Commodore 64. One candidate that flopped was the Plus-4. Unveiled in the summer of 1984, it was more powerful and versatile than the Commodore 64, but it did not run the same programs as its predecessor. Owners of the 64 who might have upgraded to the Plus-4 were reluctant to do so because they would have had to buy entirely new software libraries...
TRADITIONALLY, IT IS the responsibility of the living to make sure that heroes who died too soon did not die in vain. The Reagan Administration seems to have a penchant for turning that commitment on its head...
...themes in Natty Gann aren't too complicated, as you would expect in a movie targeted at third-graders. We see a 13-year-old girl decide to escape from the grips of a vain housekeeper who is taking care of the girl while her father is working in Washington state. During her journey across the country, she grows into a young woman. If you aren't able to tell by her actions that she is maturing, Walt Disney uses makeup and lipstick to make her look older in a kind of open caption for the hard-of-perception...