Word: mania
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...have mistaken a wild stalk-and-ambush predator for an actual person. This image of an aggressively sexual older woman who pounces on younger men pervades our media. Spurred by the marriage of then-42-year-old Demi Moore to then-27-year-old heartthrob Ashton Kutcher, cougar mania swept Hollywood at the start of the millennium and engulfed both fictional characters (Samantha Jones, the seminal cougar of “Sex and the City” fame) and real-life women (most recently, Madonna, age 50, and her barely-legal Brazilian lover, Jesus Luz). Even Sarah Palin was deemed...
...Patrick Bateman—a 1984 graduate of Harvard College and a 1986 grad of the Business School—on a slasher rampage up and down yuppie Manhattan.Bateman is a true psychotic for sure, but he’s a guy-next-door, red-blooded-American psychotic. His mania is success, his bloodlust is greed, and his pathology is passing. There was a Patrick Bateman—levered back in his chair, feet up on the desk, Walkman blaring—in every office of every building in Lower Manhattan.Vintage eventually picked up the novel, and the rest...
Washington state's Skagit Valley Tulip Festival (April 1 to 30) has fields of blooming tulips to admire. If, like the Dutch did in the 1600s, you catch tulip mania, you can see some rare and unique breeds at the nurseries, and perhaps even plant a few of your...
...reception has been good, though not Sudoku-mania good. (Then again, Sudoku wasn't an instant hit either; an Indiana architect devised the game in the 1970s, but it languished for decades under the unfortunate name Number Place.) Only five years old, KenKen already appears in the Times of London and Le Figaro in Paris, and it's coming soon to an iPhone near...
Limbaugh and his conservative critics have more in common than they think. The political import of the past two weeks of Limbaugh-mania is this: the Republicans' decline is now entering a phase in which its members are more emotionally invested in attacking one another than in attacking Obama. As long as that holds true, the White House can safely ignore the opposition, no matter how loud it gets...