Word: breakdowns
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...jagged cracks running from top to bottom. Before a word is spoken, this symbol -- with its promise of that facade's eventually cracking wide open -- conveys the aura of physical decay and revolutionary social change that drives Tony Kushner's 7 1/2-hr. epic about AIDS, gay liberation and the breakdown of the Reagan era's sanctimonious hypocrisy...
...administration that whines apologies for its liberal free speech policies. The utter breakdown of grammar, style, taste, conscience and general merit in the newer Yorker. Flaccid white walls in the Lowell dining hall. People bothering to argue about the relative intellectual merits of Madonna's book. The kidnapping of the Rational Right by various mutated isthmus-dwellers. The destruction of the public space in front of Au Bon Pain so the Ministry of Holyoke can grow by .4 percent this year...
...coalition's letter cites five examples pointing toward a breakdown in labor-management relations. One example is Harvard's hiring outside non-union contractors to do work on campus. Rudenstine said yesterday that financial prudence and responsibility require the University to put contracts up for bids...
...piquant montage of flying insignia and colliding stars, all to the swirling depths of epic music. Interactive media reached its apogee in exit poll analysis in one broadcast, as sturdy colored columns thrust out of the presenter's table to represent voters' wishes. "Now, Diane, do we have a breakdown of veterans from the Korean as opposed to Vietnam wars?" Pollsters' minutiae assailed the retina, with columns, forecasts and maps pulsating in all directions, quite inexplicably, yet invoked in deadly serious tones. "Diane, do we have a breakdown of votes of those who prefer eggs to cereal at breakfast...
...Daley instead ordered a massive police sweep of the 70-acre, 78-building project, which houses 7,000 residents a few blocks from the city's swankest shopping district. At a press conference last Monday, Daley confirmed what most urban Americans already know, saying, "We have seen a complete breakdown of society...