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This is the type of attitude Hayes feels must end. "My peer group really didn't make it," he says. The universities have a vital role to play in bringing the city back together, but the city must take the initiative. "A breakdown of the separation between the universities and the rest of the city must come or else we are in for some real trouble...
...Weekend's antecedents in American gangster and romance pictures depended on their characters' moral sensitivity; reaching to the films' violent events, the characters made sense out of them by judging them. The complete breakdown of moral perception in Weekend's characters destroys the continuity and moral progress of the narrative. Godard leaves his characters and story, and so his audience, adrift in a world bursting into flames and rubbish for want of moral individuals to control them. Mickey One expresses the disintegration of individual personality. Penn's post-Wellesian conception of an isolated character becomes quite paranoid...
Weight watchers and diabetics have used cyclamates as a sugar substitute since the early 1950's. But several researchers have claimed that cyclamates produce changes in the testes, kidneys, adrenals, and livers of laboratory animals. Others have found that a cyclamate breakdown product raises blood pressure and causes chromosome damage...
...Breakdown of Traditional Procedures
Arlen wrote me that he was not at all certain that his pieces were about TV. Perhaps they were about a great, white, ultratechnological superpower picking an out-of-the-way closet of the world in which to have a nervous breakdown- "like sending one's crazy aunt to Pernambuco... but Jesus, now the nervous breakdown seems to be here." His primary concern throughout the book is to present television as a dynamic power capable of fashioning human dreams and fears. He writes...