Word: mania
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...Garp Mania...
...school if you had no money, because in 1935 no one had any money to speak of." Supporting himself by waiting on tables and putting out fires, Kelleher soon discovered his passion, Irish literature and history. "It just plain fascinated me. You could almost say I had a mania for it," he declares. For three years he followed a normal undergraduate course; in his fourth, he was chosen as one of a select few senior fellows and allowed to pursue independent work. "I spent the year trying to master everything I've spent my life trying to master. I read...
Mike Martin is a piece of work. He was rated one of the ten worst legislators in the state by Texas Monthly magazine-in his first term. His mania for publicity alarmed even close associates. Says Leslie Smith, Martin's former public relations spokesman: "He was always intent on staging something to show himself as the clean-cut Christian battling the forces of evil." But Martin's earlier stunts were trifling compared with what happened at 2 a.m. on July...
...highly (she received an Obie award) for her rousing performance last winter in a Public Theater musical, Alice in Concert, for which the playwright, her friend Elizabeth Swados, was roundly panned. "It's insane to have winners and losers in art. We live in a society plagued by sports mania. To say that one performance is better than another is just plain dumb. You wouldn't think of comparing two colors in a painting, would you; this blue is better than that blue...
...visitor a sense of how the ancients lived when at home-when they came off their plinths, shed their cuirasses hérdïques and settled down with their wine cups and mild painted pornography, no longer behaving like noble Romans. Naples rapidly became the center of a mania for the antique, and neoclassicism was a direct result; archaeology exerted a pressure on contemporary art that exceeded even the discoveries of the Renaissance...