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...outcome is often disastrous. In cancer, for instance, advancing tumors often secrete an enzyme that chews up their matrix, freeing malignant cells to leak into the bloodstream. Some inevitably stick and proliferate at sites elsewhere in the body. Thus the lethal process of metastasis may be viewed as a breakdown in stickiness...
...seemingly endless conflict between East and West...is over," said Dukakis, "and we have won." But instead of being proud and confident, he said, "we seem to be having a kind of collective nervous breakdown...
...First Breakdown...
What saves the film from being a depressing Hollywood tribute to the breakdown of the American family is its hilarity. Woody Allen knows how to turn angst into comedy. Given Allen's domestic situation, there are many scenes that produce laughs from lines that might not otherwise have been memorable. But Woody Allen is too tricky to pin down, and it's never clear that what seems like a personal revelation really...
Although there have been complaints byfirst-years students that the card key systemsometimes works erratically, this was the firstincidence of a wide-scale breakdown...