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...that proved crucial in Harvard's surviving sloppy play and big-play lapses like Nakielny's only bright moment of the game--a 65-yard touchdown pass to wideout Ryan Crowley that caught safety Mike Madden napping in single coverage--a defensive breakdown that Linden followed with a 62-yard completion to wideout Colby Skelton on a broken-play rollout five minutes later. Every time the Crimson coughed up a turnover or blew a punt, the Tigers covered it up with gaffes of their...
...thought about the ex-gays at Exodus. One of them, who was married and "seemed like he had it all together," eventually had a nervous breakdown and attempted suicide...
...documentary is most convincing when it examines the sociological breakdown of the Branch Davidians. The members of the Branch Davidians included a large number of elderly and children. The people who composed the Branch Davidians were of diverse ethnicities. Waco essentially questions the public's conception of the Branch Davidians, personalizing them as victims of their own beliefs...
...immune system; it rejects such deeds as the Cambridge murder and necrophilia in the way that a healthy body rejects an invasion of microbes. This vigorous state of mind has no sympathy for what it identifies as alien life forms and thinks such sympathy would be dangerous weakness, a breakdown of a society's natural defenses. In some ways, of course, it is right...
Still, Updike estranges the reader by overindulging Turnbull's lapses into fantasy. Depressed by his own breakdown, Turnbull takes to imagining himself in other eras, picturing himself as an Egyptian grave robber, a disciple of the Apostle Paul in the early church, etc. One can only assume that these departures are supposed to orient Turnbull's life and ever-present death in the greater span of history--to connect his existence with others' in some all-encompassing cyclic understanding. In comparison with the use of imagination in such classic Updike as The Centaur, however, these elderly wet dreams seem positively...