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...manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster than the maps can be redrawn, and the result is something like a mass nervous breakdown...
...says that asking and telling will hurt morale? That unless everyone stays in denial, no one will take a shower? One thing that we know hurts morale is forcing people to dissemble about who waits for them at home, whom they vacation with. The Joint Chiefs fret over a breakdown of discipline, as if Tailhook had been a gay bacchanalia. Whether gay or straight, sex in the barracks is a one-way ticket to the brig. We're talking about the military, not a college dorm...
While the task force focused on the gradual breakdown between HIID and teaching and research in Cambridge, HIID has had far more public problems in recent years...
...game show prodigy Stanley Spector like the best of character actors, depicting impeccably the angst of a child sequestered from the world by the curse of genius. And Walters, who has heretofore been relegated to the margins of Anderson's films, is devastating as the coked-up, brink-of-breakdown Claudia, who can't stand to be loved because she thinks so lowly of herself. That's not all, though; the magnificent Hall is also in top form, as is Hoffman. And Reilly. And Cruise. And so on, all the way down the line of supporting roles...
Knowles also points out that other disciplines pool their knowledge to study specific topics in-depth as well. In the social sciences, he says, such an interdisciplinary approach may translate into a geographical breakdown...