Word: breakdowns
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...essential to protecting self-rule. Seven hours of talks inside the Governing Council chamber Friday night failed to produce any accord. The parties agreed to a two-day hiatus while the Shi'ites consulted Ayatullah Sistani and Bremer labored to keep the embarrassing blowup from turning into a permanent breakdown...
Stewart suffered her first visible emotional breakdown last Wednesday evening, after the case was handed to jurors, says a source close to her. She might have had an inkling of what was to come on Friday inside a crammed but quiet courtroom in lower Manhattan. The most serious charge against her, securities fraud, had been thrown out the previous week. But four counts remained--obstruction, conspiracy and two charges of making false statements. Stewart, grim-faced and dressed in her ritual uniform, a dark pantsuit, sat and showed no emotion as Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum repeated the word guilty four...
Then came a breakdown. Crimson captain Kenny Smith’s clearing attempt was kept in at the blue line by Dylan Row, who sent it back into the corner. From there, Brent Robinson beat Kevin Du off the wall and stuffed the tying goal five-hole on junior Dov Grumet-Morris...
...that’s just in the spring. Before I finish off with my breakdown of the explosive duds of the summer and hopeful Oscar contenders of the winter (a list which, last year, would have included sure things The Human Stain, The Alamo and The Missing), I’m curious as to your take on the past two months of film, and what you’re looking forward to most in the months ahead...
...only part that really sticks out is the a capella breakdown in “We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own,” which is the best song on the album until it gets turned into a go-nowhere instrumental, at which point the arrow that drove the first two thirds forward gets lost in a stuffy kind of sandbox and everything becomes horrible...