Word: mania
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wide as a convert's and a telltale glint of metal covering the ears. The body may undulate with faint intimations of a boogie. Sometimes the hands fly upward in imaginary conducting motions. No doubt about it, it is an epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound...
...getting the government off the backs of businesses. Their slogans and their rhetoric were not really new after all. Henry Kissinger and Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) spoke, saying the same things they have said for four years. But, this time, the nation was listening to the 'Republican mania, and a large portion applauded...
...welfare recipients to work, some disagree with the assumptions behind such a move. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, whose Chicago-based Operation Push stresses hard work and self-help as the road to minority success, calls workfare "psychological warfare against poor people." Says Jackson: "It's fueling the meanness mania in this country. It suggests something negative about the character of poor people." Because there are so few jobs around, some critics fear that workfare will force welfare recipients to labor for low pay in substandard conditions...
...returns to her. Seven: this time they do kill Nick. Eight: they make love over his corpse. Nine: they are charged with his murder. Ten, Eleven, Twelve ... In bold, remorseless strokes, and fewer than 100 pages, James M. Cain etched a portrait of animal lust and human need, of mania and the Depression, of the original sin and spectacularly convoluted forms of retribution. Its narrative travels the arc of electricity from the first shock of sexual attraction to the final jolt of death-row juice. The 1934 novel was a banned-in-Boston bestseller, and moviemakers have sprained their backs...
Physicians, however, have never been completely satisfied with Van Gogh's self-diagnosis. Over the years they have come up with alternative explanations for his bizarre behavior, including mania, schizophrenia, even sunstroke. Because his late paintings were dominated by swirls of color, some observers believe he also suffered from glaucoma or cataracts...