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Harvey Keitel, as director Eddie Israel, casts actors Sarah Jennings (Madonna) and Francis Burns (James Russo) as a middle-class couple on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Having undergone some sort of epiphany, Jennings' character has decided to leave her husband and the comfortable yet destructive life of drugs and multiple-partner sex they share. Employing some sort of twisted method-acting technique, Israel allows his principles to really go at each other in order to heighten dramatic intensity. The audience is asked to believe that Burns is allowed to rape and beat Jennings in repeated takes...
...housing office has consistently refused torelease figures for the racial breakdown of eachof the houses...
...should break our silence on the breakdown of values," Edelman said. "Children need to be respected, and we should not ask them to be responsible for problems we have created...
...attributed the causes of youth violence mainly to child-neglect, the lack of gun control and the breakdown of communal and spiritual values...
...next night saw a complete defensive breakdown by the Crimson, as Colgate scored the final three goals of the game (two in the last 1:57) to hand the Crimson its first defeat of the season...