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...thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown," says Edwards, who spent a lot of time "withdrawn and very, very angry," nursing murderous fantasies. Working eight to ten hours a day for six weeks at his home in Switzerland, he churned out his first vengeful draft of S.O.B. That was in 1973, and it was not until eight years later that Lorimar agreed to make his black comedy about Hollywood. It is a typical movie business irony that after Edwards finished making it, Lorimar signed a distribution agreement with Paramount, where, as Edwards sees it, his troubles began...
...Lost Traveller centers on her intense relation with her adoring but autocratic father. If Claude Batchelor lacks Dickensian vitality, he is drawn with a similar range of contradictory, deeply human strengths and weaknesses. The Sugar House and Beyond the Glass, covering a disastrous marriage and an emotional breakdown (which White also suffered), are less effective, but reflect the accuracy and honesty of the author's eye. White's weakness is for melodrama. A little of this occurs in her first novel, well covered by the hard accuracy of the setting and the characters. The conflict between father...
...will end up, like earlier postwar conservative Republican Presidents, presiding over better Soviet-American relations than liberal Democrats. Says Svyatoslav Kozlov, a retired general who now writes on military affairs: "Our experience with Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon suggests that there may still be hope for avoiding a complete breakdown, but the paradox of our better relations with Republican Presidents is by no means predestined to be repeated with Reagan...
...Strategic Studies: "The Federal Republic is simply much more affected than most other European countries by the state of East-West relations. As it has profited from détente between East and West more than most other Western countries, so it will suffer from a decline or breakdown of détente more than most others...
...midst of the most talented and hard-working people I had met here. I felt an extraordinary surge of confidence. I began to work in my courses. I was happy. But then the roof caved in. My sister, who was also at Harvard, suffered a manic-depressive breakdown. I still feel a creeping nausea as I think of the policeman coming to get me in my room and telling me that my sister was in Cambridge Hospital. I remember, hours later, shivering in thin jeans and a t-shirt in the hospital's dingy waiting room when Archie Epps walked...