Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many an obliging son it would be wiser if he never set foot in the place. Once looked on by young men as the shortest road to success, taking over a family business is now seen by more and more of them as a fast way to a nervous breakdown...
...Tomasini, 51. Elected secretary-general of the Gaullist party only last month, the outspoken Tomasini made his maiden appearance before the parliamentary correspondents' association last week, and he sounded like a Gallic Spiro Agnew. He lauded the French policeman as "the representative of liberty." He declared that any breakdown in law-and-order was not the fault of the police but was due to "the cowardice of the magistrates." He lit into the state-owned television networks for showing "the negative aspects of French life." Finally, he blamed Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas for letting the networks get away with...
...team breakdown was highlighted by Dartmouth's comeback after losing its home title at the Dartmouth Carnival. The Big Green won both the giant slalom and cross country events, while UNH took the slalom and Middlebury dominated the jumping...
...comedy. But somewhere around the middle of the film, Cassavetes becomes dissatisfied with mere drunken clownishness, and he tries to turn his film into a psychological drama. He begins to individualize characters. Motives appear. Instead of leaving his statement to a portrait of emotions, he determines to analyze the breakdown of a friendship. Harry is no longer good old Harry but an insecure sadistic paranoid who accuses his friends of talking behind his back. Archie, we find out, is no good in bed. Gus is Long Island suave to the point of obsession...
...earth. As Shepard climbs down from the lunar module, he will pull a cord to open up an exterior equipment bay, thereby switching on a color TV camera, which will later be carried around to record the astronauts' work. For insurance against an Apollo 12-type television breakdown, a black-and-white camera has been provided as a spare. Shepard, who will be recognizable by red arm and leg bands, plans to take his first steps on the moon at 9:05 a.m. E.S.T. Friday. Mitchell will join him a few minutes later, and both astronauts will...