Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Egypt, a patina of superficial prosperity gilds a fragile economic core. The revenues from new trade policies and foreign investment are flowing to an all too visible superclass of the very rich. But at the same time, the great mass of Egyptians are struggling with overcrowding, a breakdown of critical services and lack of productive jobs...
...sexpot sister Meg (Mary Beth Hurt) knows all about men ("I've had too many") but astonishingly little about herself. She rushed off to Hollywood because Old Granddaddy fostered the delusion that she could be a singing star. She became a pill-popping swinger and had a mental breakdown. The scar tissue shows in hard-boiled mannerisms and a terror of displaying "weakness...
...fairly good lawnful ("Round it off to 4,000," says Morse with a promoter's optimism), begins to thaw out. There is a lot of good-natured yah-HOOOOing when one of the contestants gives a good down-home rendition of Whisky Before Breakfast or Chinese Breakdown. Dancers weave among the lawn chairs. A beery college boy with a painted face gyrates for a while and then collapses, to rise no more. One of his friends tries to jump a small brook in front of the bandstand and lands square in the middle, to moderate applause...
...think in the process of a new Government getting together there has at times been a breakdown of communications, [insufficient] checking of each other. . . I just think that was part of the shakedown that goes on with an Administration...
...wife and child. Civility and discretion quickly fail. Bernard is determined to return their relationship to its old obsessive level. When Mathilde resists emotional imprisonment, he creates a scandalous scene at a party. The incident cauterizes his wounds, but it opens hers. This role reversal leads to her breakdown, and to the film's surprisingly tragic denouement...