Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second Ex slot will be filled by the first English production of the Austrian play, The President. Written in 1971 by Thomas Bernhard and translated by director Gizelle Faulkenberg's mother, the play is about the assassination of a dictator and the breakdown of human relationships. Traditional Austrian themes of decadence done a la Beckett...
Throughout the film, the sense persists that May lost track of what she had wanted to do. Small points and moments are worried past endurance, while the main plot wanders. Watching the pic ture is an unsettling and eventually op pressive experience, like observing a person having a nervous breakdown...
What's the breakdown? Oakland has a passing game which centers around experienced quarterback Ken Stabler. With a solid offensive line to give him protection, "Snake" should be able to find receivers Cliff Branch and Fred Biletnikoff for a successful aerial onslaught...
Expand Grounds. Although there was no breakdown on how many of last week's participants were regular or, for whatever reason, estranged members, church officials reported numerous calls from divorced and remarried Catholics who have yearned for Communion. Under an 1884 decree of the U.S. hierarchy, such people are automatically excommunicated until their previous spouses die. The Memphis ceremony was not a permanent change in discipline. All those who took Communion were instructed to make individual confessions later. Those who are divorced and remarried, in Memphis as elsewhere, must gain annulments, in which the church rules that their previous...
...message is simple enough: Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the once popular anchorman of a national newscast, falls victim to the twin evils of booze and declining ratings, and Max Schumacher (William Holden), the head of UBS News, tells him he has to go. Suffering a momentary nervous breakdown, Beale goes on air to announce that in a week's time he will shoot himself on-camera. He has, he says, run out of the "bullshit" that kept him going...