Word: mania
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...consults a carton full of rhyming dictionaries, a thesaurus, catalogues of puns and books on analogy. She researches the products and tries to incorporate the manufacturers' sales pitches. Clever titles will give you an edge, advises Mrs. Haley, who has come up with such concoctions as "I Remember Mania's Turnips" and "Reunion Chicken." She won a $600 microwave oven for a frankfurter casserole called "Putting on the Dog," a freezer for a sandwich dubbed "Ham Snacktaculars" and a stuffed tiger from the health food store for naming it "Eaton Wright." Other Haley coinages include "Blendelicious...
Recently Saturday Review flaunted a complaint titled "Jogging Mania-Enough Already!" Art Buchwald proposed a mileage tax on runners, and New York Daily News Humorist Gerald Nachman whimsically reviewed The Complete Book of Lollygagging-a title not precisely the same as that of Jim Fixx's bestselling rhapsody on running. Russell Baker, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor-all have joined in a spirited backlashathon...
...over the place in the U.S. The necessity of naming 3 million babies a year is only one source of nameless stress. Americans continually leap into flaps and furors over the naming and renaming of things and places. It amounts to a national obsession, or craze, or fascination, or mania-name it what you will-and it seems to be getting livelier all the time...
Revenge of the Pink Panther--To be perfectly honest, we haven't seen this one yet, but we can imagine that it's just Peter Sellers up to his old tricks again. M. Clouseau on the trail of something or other, with all the attendant mania. Sellers is a very funny man who doesn't know how to quit while he's ahead...
...bitterness that surrounds everything they do--and the gleeful media reaction and pressure that fed on it and built it up--has made rooting for them an ordeal, even it they did win it all last year and come close the year before. Every triumph over the Steinbrenner-inspired mania was hardearned. No wonder so many of the players, led by Munson, want out. Who would want to play for a man as manipulative and unsavory as Steinbrenner...