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...film's center lies in the bond between Julia Roberts as the young woman serenely accepting the risk of childbirth and Sally Field as her tightly wound mother, wanting to scream warnings at her daughter but only able to whisper despairing support for her -- right through the final coma. Their characters are fully and finely realized, and their work is supported, not subverted, by the style and mood of a film that cries more easily, and more persuasively, than it laughs...
...limits of power in the nuclear age. Paradoxically, the Wall, despised though it was, acted as a bulwark for stability in Europe, ratifying two spheres of influence and thus maintaining the alternative of cold war to hot war. It was the most palpable evidence of a deep wound in European civilization -- and it is finally gone...
...players were giving the Crimson front line a lot of trouble. Junior Peri Wallace kept the Crimson in the first game with some incredible blocks, sometimes two or three per point. Inspired by Wallace, the Crimson came storming back and took the lead, 13-12. The flustered FDU team wound up yielding the first set to the Crimson...
Even when Monsters' stories are predictable and thin, the show is enlivened by grisly good humor. In one episode, two burglar brothers kill an old lady (Imogene Coca) while ransacking her home, but not before she bites one on the hand. The swollen wound soon takes the shape of the dead woman's face, which won't shut up. "It's like in one of them Wolfman movies," cries the cursed fellow. Replies his dim-witted brother: "What, an old lady bites you, and you turn into another old lady?" This weekend Soupy Sales plays a traveling salesman who, after...
...incident began around 12:20 a.m. on Tuesday when an ambulance heading down Washington St. bound for Carney Hospital was flagged down by two men in a car. Moody, suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck, was a passenger in the car, police said...