Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merriment plays off an apprehension of Midler's public, if not of the star herself, that she is in a slight career trough. A decade ago, she suffered an acrimonious flop film (Jinxed) and a nervous breakdown. She rebounded into a saner life, with a doting husband and an adored daughter, and the movie stardom that had previously eluded her. But her past three films ! have fallen this side of blockbuster. Scenes from a Mall swallowed her and Woody Allen whole; Hocus Pocus was a moderately popular summer farce; she turned down the original Sister Act script to make...
...former Secretary of State George Shultz, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and nearly 100 other signers urged President Clinton to insist that nato make immediate air strikes against Serb planes and artillery and that the U.N. lift its arms embargo against the Bosnian Muslims. Responding to yet another breakdown of the Geneva peace talks, Clinton warned the Serbs and Croats once again that the military strike option was "still very much alive." Earlier in the week, Clinton said that under the right conditions, he would send almost 30,000 troops to Bosnia to help enforce a peace treaty...
Particularly moving are passages describing the beauties of Martha's Vineyard, where her parents own a house in Oak Bluffs and where she retreats after suffering from a nervous breakdown, brought on by the stress...
...region into two periods: before 761 and after. Before that year, he says, wars were well- orchestrated battles to seize dynastic power and procure royal captives for very public and ornate executions. But after 761, he notes, "wars led to wholesale destruction of property and people, reflecting a breakdown of social order comparable to modern Somalia." In that year the king and warriors of nearby Tamarindito and Arroyo de Piedra besieged Dos Pilas. Says Demarest: "They defeated the king of Dos Pilas and probably dragged him back to Tamarindito to sacrifice him." The reason for the abrupt change...
...they recruited Nelson because they valued her viewpoint. But when she wrote wrote anything with a point of view, they usually buried the story in the back pages or didn't publish it. Increasingly frustrated by second-rate assignments and alienated from her peers, Nelson veered toward an emotional breakdown. Her last months at the Post were marred by a suspension after she foolishly forged the initials of a supervisor on a travel voucher...