Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Love You." The album ends with a trio of ballads including SWV's "Rain," Boyz II Men's "A Song for Mama," and Xscape's "The Arms of the One Who Loves You," whose soothing rhythmic flow shadows its clichd lyrics. Despite songs such as Mariah Carey's "Breakdown" and Brian McKnight's "Anytime," which belong to a wave of late '90s radio-wrecking hits, many are beyond just cheap popular successes. Erykah Badu sings "Tyrone" with the utmost heart-gripping passion. This album is definitely a valuable addition to the collection of anyone who loves R&B music...
Having reached threescore and 10 years, Zhu should be resting on his achievements. But in fact he is taking on the weight of U.S.-China tensions just as his own economy is teetering on the edge of breakdown. Time is short. "Black hairs have already turned to gray," he said last month, expressing his frustration at the slow pace of negotiations with the U.S. for China's entry into the World Trade Organization. He could have been referring to his own life story, an ever more difficult struggle against the forces of disintegration, anarchy and corruption that could...
...take charge of the production and sales of TV sets, and in a vigorous public-relations campaign, promoted both Zworykin and Sarnoff as the fathers of television. Farnsworth withdrew to a house in Maine, suffering from depression, which was made worse by excessive drinking. He had a nervous breakdown, spent time in hospitals and had to submit to shock therapy. And in 1947, as if he were being punished for having invented television, his house in Maine burned to the ground. One wishes it could be said that this was the final indignity Farnsworth had to suffer...
...pretty soon Blum's network suffered a major communication breakdown. The computers would crash every time Blum or his employee tried to print a document, and customer service's advice--to uninstall and then reinstall the networking software on both machines--didn't do the trick. Frustrated and falling behind on his professional work, Blum finally disassembled everything and put things back the way they were before he tried networking. "I had been jerking around with it all day," he says, "and I needed to get back to work...
...decision to split up is mutual, and his writing, lucid and lovely, creates a sense of intimacy with the reader that Intimacy fails to do. We get a clear view into Taylor's windows, but we are not disgusted by what we see. "At what precise point does the breakdown of a marriage become irretrievable?" the author wonders. "While it requires will to make a marriage work, it also requires a horrifying act of will to bring...