Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Never mind the occasional barks. The infectious beat of Dixie Spider Man and some fancy guitar acrobatics on The Driver's Engine - an electrified country breakdown - are well worth plugging into...
...Brad (Jon Cypher) tracks Betty to her motel room and concludes that she is either having an affair or a breakdown. Unequipped to deal with either possibility, he has one stopgap measure: he wants to join up with a clan of swingers and swappers. Betty, usually a glutton for punishment, draws the line. The last scene shows her taking one of the two family cars and heading for an uncertain dawn. That she picks the station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the side to drive off in does not bode well for the future...
...that the Soviets require, Tass has already indicated that Moscow is still looking toward the West, "not excepting the most economically powerful Western nation -the U.S.A." The Kremlin may now reckon that Congress, discouraged by its inability to make the Soviets change their internal policy and fearing a genuine breakdown in detente, will eventually abandon its demands. There is not the slightest indication that Congress will...
...Kippur War, Israel saw an unexpectedly high number of its soldiers fighting personal breakdown, from conversion symptoms (paralysis of a healthy leg, for example) to panic, amnesia and other classic reactions of "battle shock." Some of the effects were new to Israelis. The need to abandon wounded comrades on the field during the heavy and continuous fighting, a denial of the Israeli army's code of behavior, was shattering. One Israeli machine gunner shot down so many Arabs that he fled in panic, obsessed by the idea of a pile of corpses blotting out the sun. Another soldier, unhurt...
...people do exist, but they are not numerous." Why the urgency? "Poetry is extremely important to me," says Black. "Except for the family, it is centrally important." His poetry for the most part is dense and mystical, and perhaps makes it easier to understand why Black suffered a nervous breakdown three years ago. In his first volume, Telescopes and Islands (1963), and in 250 poems published in small journals, he comments on aspects of man's agonies, simple pleasures and the contradictions in his relationship to nature. Some of the poems are lighter, however. A sample entitled "Reciprocation...