Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sympathize with Sheila Rauch Kennedy in the breakdown of her marriage to Joe Kennedy II [NATION, May 12], but I regret her views on the Roman Catholic Church's process of annulment. Your story said Rauch, who is protesting the annulment of her 12-year marriage, decries "the annulment procedure's dishonesty in ruling that a once happy marriage never existed in the eyes of God." Almost half the marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, including those of Catholics. In recent decades, more annulments have been granted because of a deeper understanding of the spiritual and emotional maturity required...
...Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly. The visionary urge appeared less often in professional art, until Modernism arrived. There are elements of it in the work of Thomas Cole and in the dark, brooding landscapes of Ralph Blakelock (1847-1919), who was to suffer a depressive breakdown and spend the last 20 years of his life in a mental hospital. But the exemplar of the visionary state was Blakelock's exact contemporary, Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Under these circumstances, uncountable things could go wrong, and the CIA lists three most feared scenarios. First is a political crisis in Moscow that could lead to a military coup or a breakdown in command authority from the top. This could leave elements of the strategic forces to their own devices...
...point; Amanda's ridiculousness makes her as much a pathetic figure as a comic one. She is moreover, in her own narrow-minded way, a fighter who puts a brave if silly face on things and who stubbornly refuses to admit defeat--which makes the cruelty of her final breakdown, powerfully portrayed by Barker, all the more painful...
...Sally's breakdown is prompted partly by her assimilation anxiety as the child of Chinese-American immigrants; by book's end, however, she is a universal character whose struggle for identity anyone can identify with. "At my readings there's been an interesting mix," says Chao. "Out of, say, 35 people, there will be about five Asians. I also thought when I was writing it that it was a 'chick book.' But my audience has been divided about fifty-fifty between men and women...