Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Audience member Kim T. Knight expressed some disappointment with the gender breakdown of the audience...
...well it should. Shostakovich's first impulses retain their power to shock and thrill even after 60 years, and the elements that so offended Stalin -- the detumescent sound of the slide trombones in the rape scene, or the drunken peasant's breakdown after he discovers the corpse of Katerina's husband -- still pack a wallop...
...related to blood, prosecutors had hoped for an educated jury; only two jurors attended college. Older, retired people are usually more willing to convict; most jurors are in their 20s and 30s. The single bright spot for prosecutors perhaps -- a critical part of their strategy -- lies in the gender breakdown. Eight jurors are women and one of those, a black woman, has worked with domestic violence victims. The panel's lone white female said her father had beaten her mother...
...National Institutes of Health rebuked the University of California, Los Angeles for serious "deficiencies" in setting up schizophrenia experiments that UCLA runs at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Los Angeles. A UCLA experiment reported in TIME last year -- in which one patient suffered a severe psychotic breakdown and another committed suicide -- was formally sanctioned and is now said to be undergoing an ethics review by the American Psychological Association...
...frame -- the prime-time hours during which a new network is presenting an extravagant premiere broadcast featuring all its stars and programs. The movie wants to show us the frenzy of such an enterprise, bring everyone involved as close as possible to panic but not in itself succumb to breakdown. This is a feat that has always interested George Lucas, who wrote the original story and is the executive producer. As we know from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, he loves multilevel, multicharacter, broadly played popular fiction edited at a pace that flirts with incomprehensibility yet rigorously maintains...