Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seeming model of sanity and success should suddenly break. But Bergman has demonstrated more effective ways of revealing this. The viewer feels so insulted and manipulated by the overexplicit technique of this dream-sequence that he is almost too preoccupied to concentrate on the unfolding story of Jenny's breakdown...
...Your story alleges that I referred to "the breakdown of democracy in America in recent years." In fact, I referred quite explicitly to the "vitality" of American democracy; this, I said, created problems for the operation of democratic government, but at no time did I say that American democracy had broken down...
...restored by the proper combination of solitary reflection and spiritual guidance. The high hopes of the reformers proved, of course, impossibly Utopian-probably in theory, certainly in practice. As crime increased, the prisons were soon overcrowded, and thus neither solitude nor guidance was any longer possible. More important, the breakdown of familial and communal controls that had made prisons necessary in the first place ensured that the prisons could not be successful-how does one reform in a year or two a personality that has been deformed by a decade or two of neglect or abuse...
...this is well enough done, but not until Mrozek begins to explore these deceptively complicated characters in depth does the symmetry of the role-reversal scheme breakdown, revealing some of the more profound themes beneath...
Lack of Crimson endurance and the breakdown of the squad's short weaving pass strategy aided the enemy during the second half, as the Brown machine came...