Word: descented
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...recent film about the making of Apocalypse Now! traced Francis Ford Coppola's descent into madness as the movie and the Cambodian jungle where it was shot became the director's obsession...
...essays in Townships, however, destroyed my stereotype. It contains essays by Jewish writers and by a man of Lebanese descent. I didn't have them in my picture. More importantly, all the essays are bound by the intensely personal and individual nature of their voices, and they emphasize a varied personality and individuality in the Midwest that I never imagined...
...entrancing in their vivid representation of the absurdities of love, liking and all the intermediate emotions. Chloe Leamon, however, was perhaps not an ideal choice for the part of Gloria. Leamon is entirely credible as a woman contemptuous of passion, but she fails to portray adequately Gloria's descent from feminism to femininity...
...same job division as in childbirth. Henry wrote a charming memoir of the couple's life together, We Thought We Could Do Anything, leaving out most of the bleak parts -- the alcoholism, the bitter fights that made their daughters beg the two to get a divorce, both parents' descent into mental illness. It was enough to make Nora, the eldest of the pair's four daughters, vow to put Hollywood, movies and screenwriting a full continent away from her own life. She became a journalist, a remote enough calling that "I thought it was like taking up carpentry...
...entirely understandable -- mistake. For the ruined doctor commits suicide, and his wife Peyton (Rebecca De Mornay) suffers both a miscarriage and a descent into madness as a result of the trauma. Assuming a false name and a false air of accommodation, she turns up at the Bartels', seeking work as a mother's helper. And, of course, revenge...