Word: crack-up
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...same time, the vainglorious Emperor Louis-Napoléon was stumbling into the calamities of war and revolution. Eventually art would imitate life; all the old orders would come crashing down; and Manet, Monet and Cézanne would emerge from the wreckage. King's account of that all-important crack-up is full of smart pleasures...
...Fourth of July. But the best pyrotechnics show is likely to take place 268 million miles away, when a probe fired from the Deep Impact spacecraft is scheduled to collide with Comet Tempel 1, a nine-mile-long rock roaring through space at 66,880 m.p.h. The planned cosmic crack-up will gouge out a football-field-size crater and may be visible from the U.S. Pacific Coast and points west. It may also reveal a lot about the chemistry of comets, fossils of the early solar system...
...biological clock is ticking. They are constantly reminded that they are aging." The regular reminders of fertility are replaced by the insistent signals of menopause. Anthropologists say male status is typically tied to money and power, which explains why the standard male midlife crisis is triggered by a career crack-up. Women's turmoil often reflects events in their personal lives as well as the accumulated stress of years of ladder climbing, multitasking and barrier breaking. Nearly three-quarters of women from 40 to 54 in a Yankelovich Monitor study said life is "much too complicated...
Just last month, another tiger shook up New York City after it escaped from a circus in Queens. The animal caused a multicar crack-up but no serious injuries when it strolled down the Jackie Robinson Parkway and lay down on a nearby street. A handler lured the tiger back into its cage and returned it to the circus...
...Postcards from the Edge, Fisher's 1987 autobiographical debut novel about the emotional perils of growing up in Hollywood as the daughter of two big names (names like, say, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds). In each book Suzanne careers gamely into crisis--a drug addiction then, a bipolar crack-up now, not unlike the one Fisher suffered in 1997. This time she also has a concerned ex-husband who has left her for a man, and a beloved little daughter who may be starting to prefer the company of Dad and his boyfriend. They do, after all, have that...