Word: mania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purchase, to take effect in June, is part of a recent merger mania by Macmillan (1983 sales: $430.5 million), whose businesses include the Katharine Gibbs secretarial schools and the Berlitz language instruction programs. Macmillan last year acquired six companies, including three educational publishers. The latest takeover will strengthen Macmillan in such areas as children's books, reference works and college texts...
...major league players are drawn from a prospective player pool far wider than in Ty Cobb's heyday, so that the best are truly the best, not simply the luckiest. Still by any standards, Ty Cobb was the greatest player of his own generation, possessing a talent and mania for victory that would undoubtedly have made for success in any era of the game. As such and as the best paid player of his time, the game's first millionaire. Cobb was a lightening rod for America in flux in its social, economic, and political institutions...
...agree with Burger's complaints about litigation "mania." Petty suits are being filed daily. A man sues a company for damages suffered when he could not hear traffic because he was wearing earphones. A drunk sues a bar because it should have refused to serve him. Some lawyers are accepting these cases; otherwise lawsuits could never be filed...
Except for a few intense and contorted still lifes, all the paintings in this show are of the human figure, usually centered, glaring outward with the dilated mania of the eye that first transfixed its audience in the preparatory paintings for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon three generations before. No exhibition in memory has been so full of eyes (or of anuses and genitals, his other fetish objects). The late work attacks and reattacks art-history themes, figures by Rembrandt, Poussin, Manet, Delacroix, Rousseau. It is culturally saturated, as well as drenched in his macaronic, theatrical and self-mocking sexuality...
...well," she sighs with resignation, "you have to have a mania about your subject, like the film critic who goes to the movies...