Word: mania
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...process, Armstrong, inspired by what he calls "the absurdity" of watching embedded journalists broadcast live from the middle of a war, came up with American Idiot, the deceptively upbeat title track that proclaimed, "Don't want to be an American Idiot/ Don't want a nation under the new mania." Then Dirnt composed a strange 30-sec. cabaret ditty, which Armstrong and Cool liked so much that they wrote their own 30-sec. additions. Soon they had the beginnings of the 9-min., five-part Jesus of Suburbia, which introduced both Jesus, a character struggling against the country...
Richard Li, the entrepreneurial son of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, had big plans in 2000 when, during the height of dotcom mania, he used the inflated stock of his Internet start-up to buy Hong Kong's dominant phone company, Hong Kong Telecom. Li's grand vision was to use the telco's network as a springboard to launch an interactive entertainment service called Network of the World (NOW), aimed at delivering TV-style content over the Internet to global subscribers. But NOW flopped when the Internet bubble popped, and a chastened Li was left with little more...
...shows about the same subject is a coincidence. Three is a theme. Four, you're bordering on mania. After the election, we heard about TV executives seeking to sign up shows about the flyover red states. But HBO remains the bluest of the blue networks--as blue as the Pacific, a Santa Monica bus, a Dodgers cap--confident that its subscribers are unendingly interested in the angst unique to those poor souls unfortunate enough to have a SAG card. Nor is it alone. In March Showtime will debut Fat Actress, starring Kirstie Alley in a fictionalized version of her travails...
...about half of which were Dylan covers—and stuck it on the dusty record player with the glee anyone feels at finding a much-beloved album. He didn’t know that by doing so he was sowing the seeds of my Dylan mania...
Capulong and Scaramello may be hard-core overachievers, but they're part of a national trend. The thirst to stand out in the brutal college-admissions game is driving a kind of AP-mania all across the U.S. Last May 1.9 million AP exams were taken by 1.1 million U.S. high school students--more than double the number who took them in 1994 and more than six times the number who took them 20 years ago. During the past decade, the number of high schools offering AP classes has grown a third...