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Like Peninsula, we are concerned about the disintegration of the American family. But its problems have nothing to do with homosexuality. They have to do with teenage mothers, absent fathers, abused children, drugs, alcohol, crime, poverty, divorce, lousy sex education, the breakdown of personal responsibility. We don't see Peninsula devoting 56-page issues to these problems...
Plath's experiences at Smith College prior to her breakdown are unnervingly familiar to any active undergraduate-the stress and tension of academics, time-consuming extracurriculars, trouble balancing social life, concerns over money and scholarships. Alexander's theory that stress brought on sinusitis which then-he quotes a letter by Plath-"plunges me in manic depression" is only believable as a partial explanation...
...environment is not the only area where there's been a breakdown in national leadership, he said...
...began wondering what it all could possibly mean. I was musing aloud about some breakdown at a nuclear power plant -- that would explain Baklanov's presence. But it turned out much worse than that...
...loud and brassy, I'll Fly Away is quiet and relentlessly sober. Sam Waterston, with his somber mien and drooping shoulders, plays Forrest Bedford, a liberal-minded prosecutor in a small Southern town who is raising three children on his own. (His wife has been hospitalized after a nervous breakdown; Forrest, meanwhile, is growing friendly with a rival lawyer, played by Kathryn Harrold.) The family has just hired a new maid, Lily (Regina Taylor), who becomes the focus for an exploration of changing race relations at a crucial historical time...