Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nervous breakdown of one of Puthenpura's recruits finally brought some limited Vatican action. When Novice Mary Kutty was hospitalized in Florence in 1969, her language teacher fought for her return to India. Puthenpura failed to respond, but the convent finally sent her back and she promptly recovered. Last February papal Secretary of State Jean Cardinal Villot ordered all recruiting to stop. In June papal nuncios in Europe were ordered to interview every Indian novice; Rome's investigation is still going...
...sets up precisely the big-power confrontation that both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have tried to avoid in the Middle East. The second option is dangerous because it could touch off a new spiral in the arms race. Either course of action would certainly risk a breakdown in the Arab-Israeli talks that are scheduled to be held under the auspices of U.N. Diplomat Gunnar Jarring...
Director Costa-Gavras, moreover, takes sides unashamedly. The film fails completely to make the valid historical point that the Greek left should bear a share of the guilt for the public violence and the breakdown of democratic politics in Greece...
...late '30s; of cancer; in Indianapolis. Her fourth movie, Come and Get It, was a smash hit in 1936, and she conquered Broadway with equal ease a year later in Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. After that came raging fights with coworkers, bouts of alcoholism and finally, mental breakdown. Eventually, she recovered her health and went on to host a popular Indianapolis TV show...
...book moves out of the valley to the ideal backdrop for modern despair: the movie colony in Los Angeles. The heroine is Maria Wyeth. an occasional actress married to a young director. The story of Maria's decline from depression to breakdown is told in 84 brief, cinematic takes-84 direct hits on a fragile psyche...