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Ronni Levesque, Quincy House superintendent, speculated the large group overloaded the elevator's weight capacity, causing the breakdown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Breakdown | 10/10/1978 | See Source »

...South Africa, the local population would probably continue to endure the present oppressive system for a long time, unless military or economic pressure from outside countries accelerates the breakdown of the government, Skocpol said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skocpol Says Revolt Unlikely In South Africa | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

Isolation from the world was a key element in the Camp David summit, and only after it was over did the participants start to tell bits and pieces of this extraordinary two-week confrontation. The pieces add up to a dramatic chronicle of clashes and near breakdown before the final accord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ordeal In the Mountains | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

FRIDAY. Carter makes morning visit to Sadat in desperate bid to keep conference going. He makes the issue very personal. Aside from the dangers to the Middle East, he says, breakdown would badly damage his own political position in U.S. Sadat later says he has "a soft spot in my heart for President Carter," and that he would do what he could. Explains a Sadat aide: "Sadat told us that no American President has ever so Involved himself in our problems. We can never expect to have another like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ordeal In the Mountains | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...story, he tells in lavish detail the histrionic tales of the hero's psychotic mother (Lelia Goldoni), his anorectic kid brother (Michael Hershewe), his sexually troubled dad (Tony Lo Bianco) and his defeated uncle (Paul Sorvino). Newman, like Price, wants to make a larger sociological point about the breakdown of oldtime immigrant values in chaotic modern America, but he overstates the case. Bloodbrothers has so much narrative, most of it melodramatic, that every scene becomes a climax, every speech a tragic monologue. Each psycho logical motive is spelled out; no events are left to the audience's imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Somebodies | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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