Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.
We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.
So much great film has fallen by the wayside. The studios are collapsing the window between the theatrical release and the DVD. We're taking that one step further.
I think the market will continue to trade in a tight range in no-man's land. It's not like we're collapsing but it's just going nowhere.
We stood around too much in the first half and Lourdes did a good job of collapsing their defense and clogging the middle. They also hurt us with some transition baskets. We were going to have to move the ball better in the second half.
We knew he wasn't going to get open looks, but once they started collapsing on the big guys, that really opened it up for him on the outside. And he made them pay.
Prices at these levels can't be justified based on fundamentals only. While we haven't seen the top of the market yet, the risk of prices collapsing is very high.
Erosion was endangering the road, but it's not collapsing or anything like that. Mainly the road was closed for the safety of the workers.
France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,