Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PHILADELPHIA is going to win this week. I can just feel it. That, or I am coming down with something. But seriously, this could be the moment for the Bucs' QB, Trent Dilfer, to suffer a gigantic nervous breakdown. On a more positive note, we could just see the Eagles' Duce Staley run away with the ball and take the birds to a 16-10 victory...
...hammer, and your brain hurriedly retrieves the tool's name, its appearance, its function, its heft and the sound of its clang, each extracted from a different region of the brain. Fail to connect a person's name with his or her face, and you experience the breakdown of that assembly process that many of us begin to experience in our 20s--and that becomes downright worrisome when we reach...
...cheer. It brims with life; it has more convulsive plot twists than any recent Hollywood movie; it parades a fistful of seductive Spanish stars (Penelope Cruz, Marisa Paredes, Antonia San Juan); it shows Almodovar, the Spanish writer-director best known for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, in full emotional and cinematic maturity, with no loss of his early pansexual pizazz. Here is a beautifully composed mash note to the theater and to theatricality, to actresses and mothers--to a woman's will to survive with grace and good humor. WHEN Sept. 24, New York Film Festival...
...detractors (HILLARY GO HOME signs sprouted wherever she went last week). There are legions on both sides, and neither can quite believe she is actually going to bring her soap opera to their state. But bring it she will. Where a lesser person might be having a post-traumatic breakdown right about now, Hillary is having a campaign--and, it would seem, the time of her life. Is this politics, psychotherapy, or a little of both? Whatever the answer, the campaign for Senate is filling a large need. It would take a cataclysm to keep her out of this race...
...Northern Ireland assembly before the IRA has turned over at least some of its guns appears to be a primarily symbolic issue. On the other hand, the fact that both sides have refused to budge on a who-goes-first quarrel despite the late hour suggests the breakdown signals a case of cold feet on both sides...