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The French empire was collapsing.
A few months ago at the funeral of singer Tammy Wynette, her fifth husband George Richey--perhaps stealing some moves from the finale of a James Brown concert--had to be repeatedly held up by friends to keep from collapsing.
Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...
Israeli implementation of the Wye peace agreement is collapsing . First, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu halted Israel's promised troop withdrawals from the West Bank because of Palestinian violence.
Late at night in a village, however, you would see the wild-eyed men in a genuine frenzy or collapsing at the climax into unconsciousness, until revived by priests who sprinkle them with holy water.