Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increases for 1,000,000 tea, jute, textile and engineering workers. To make sure that no one interfered with the Marxists' tough tactics, Party Boss Jyoti Basu saw to it that Bengali police were deeply infiltrated by the party faithful. The political shenanigans soon led to a breakdown of law and order throughout the state...
...walked down the hall to the Training and Planning Bureau, Regan tried to explain briefly the structural breakdown of the department. Soon I was staring at a large board that places each of Cambridge's 246 policemen in one of six bureaus. By the time I left this room two hours later, I was loaded down with organizational charts, daily manifolds (bulletins outlining the day's activities for each shift), the general statement of the Massachusetts Police Training Council, and a lengthy paper on "the role of the community in the development of police systems." This all seemed strange when...
Robert Ball, TIME'S European economic correspondent, is impressed by the changes that he notices on periodic visits home. "The breakdown in street cleaning and trash removal seems symptomatic of a general decline in urban public services," he reports. "Certainly public transport in a city like New York is a disaster. The subway system is one of the dirtiest I have ever seen ?worse than London?and is by all odds the hardest to use. A visitor now is usually spared the rigors of long rail journeys because there are hardly any trains. Even airline efficiency...
PRESUMABLY Marshall McLuhan did not intend to spread alarm when he described communications networks as "extensions of our physical and nervous systems." What happens when that central extension, the telephone network, shows symptoms of a nervous breakdown? For a distressing number of months, it has. When there should be a dial tone, all too often there is only silence or a snap, crackle and pop. Sometimes a call connects to someone else's conversation. The epitaph for much of 1970 America could be "Sorry, the number that you have dialed is not a working number...
...over Mark's death, plunges her face into a stream of water, drawing vacarious tears from the man-made waterfall. Antonioni, grooving, is a swell iconographer. The dramatic conception is finally on a level with the visual sophistication, and the last reels stand as an abstract montage of breakdown and non-communication...