Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long, or so intense. Had Bertolucci felt more kindly toward his audiences, he could have made his tale a simple epic--45 years of conflict between landlords and peasants in northern Italy, living out a history most of us already know. He could have shown us the breakdown of the traditional patronage system under the influence of industrialization, the rise of peasant leagues, the landlords' reaction and the spread of fascism without involving us so totally; or he could have shown us the characters' interaction without making such a detailed effort to place their lives in a social and political...
...example, last month a Science Center room reached about 90 degrees because of such a breakdown and it happened during a lecture on computers...
...flying saucers' visit to Muncie causes myriad electrical failures, and a young electrician (Richard Dreyfus) is dispatched to investigate the breakdown of a nearby regenerating unit. Lost and confused, the electrician stops in the middle of the road and consults his map. A pair of headlights appears behind the truck; the electrician waves the car on and submerges into his map again. Another pair of headlights appears behind the electrician's truck, but this time there is something peculiar about their shape. Dreyfus waves this vehicle on also, but instead of going around the truck, it goes up and over...
Soares had called the vote of confidence after the breakdown of lengthy negotiations with the other parties over austerity measures designed to help bolster Western Europe's poorest economy. "It was necessary to clarify the situation," Soares told TIME'S Martha de la Cal, explaining why he had asked for a vote in an attempt to break the political stalemate. "We had to lance the festering wound." A last-minute attempt to save the government failed when Soares' Socialists refused to yield any concessions to the Communists, such as easing up on the government's reclamation...
...enough evidence to indicate that industrial society is in its death throes. The new technological society that Toffler heralds seems a lot like the old industrial society we all have known. About the only thing that is going to save Toffler from future anonymity is a cataclysmic breakdown of society within the next few decades. But in the meantime, Toffler will be doing a commendable service by allowing us momentarily to break out of traditional patterns of thinking about problems and spurring us on to explore the possibilities about the future with our minds...