Then came total rupture, two conventions, two slates of officers, two balloon-blowing-up machines, two prospective presidential nominees.
Then came a rupture that has never fully healed.
This month's bumper crop of brood-centric novels plumb catastrophes, coming of age, ruptures and reconciliation.
In California, the 2014 assessment has been significantly adjusted, thanks in large part to the brand-new Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast model, which allows scientists to come up with rupture scenarios that are "plausible" for the state's complex network of faults, Petersen says.
Perhaps our sense of rupture comes from a loss - a loss of a sense of continuity.
The rupture came in late 2006, when Ovechkin, a second-year N.H.L. star, fired Meehan as his agent.
But it would also likely de-legitimise the next government before it comes into power, rupture Pakistan's largest political party, and create a nationalist backlash against the US.
Claude, swoonily charming, master of the "stratospheric orgasm" and genuinely in love with Eloise — their rupture came when she had an abortion without telling him — incorporates a whole buttery serving of great-French-lover clichés.
With their suspicion of "grand narratives," "essentialism" and even "authors," postmodernist critics came to value rupture over continuity, contradictions over coherence, and the casual intrusion of social flotsam and jetsam over authorial intention.
