Word: mania
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...imagines, from which Judas drank at the Last Supper. The searchers are Matthew Mendelsohn, a 33-year-old former New York state senator, and Lise, a moonstruck German beauty. For three years they have excavated the beaches and caves of Ibiza -Lise because she believes with the force of mania that the cup is there, Matthew because he believes serenely in nothing...
...illogical world that is both flat and round, where 33? r.p.m. exerts a fearful centrifugal force. The U.S., particularly that extensive tribe of its citizenry under 30, is electronically in thrall to the thrumming, incessant sound of music, a phenomenon that has handed the record business a supremely marketable mania. Every week, hundreds of records are poured into radio stations by promoters trying to crack the crucial list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile upon endless racks in drugstores and supermarkets, there to await the ready purses...
...watched the second "In Concere." And I thought, within the limitations imposed by the greedy general atmosphere of television, that the show was excellent. This may've been the music--my love for the Allman Brothers borders on mania--but the tendency to underplay the visual effects was refreshing after the nightmare of split screening in Woodstock. WBCN's choice of what obnoxious commercials to air was just irrational enough to be interesting. "In Concert" has the potential to please that segment of the rock listening public tired of fighting rip off ticket prices and obnoxious audiences. And, even before...
...caused some of America's "scarcely jackassable" roads to be paved for the first time? In short, if anybody thinks bicycles are having a boom now, Robert Smith, professor of history at California State College, is prepared to prove that it's mild indeed compared to the mania which swept the country between 1892 and 1898. In those days the army made pedalers out of cavalrymen, police speed traps caught "scorchers," and Diamond Jim Brady paid $10,000 for Lillian Russell's wheel. It has mother-of-pearl handlebars, spokes encrusted with jewels and-scandalous!-a custom...
...seen 3,000 movies, but the walls of the back room of a Greenwich Village candy store in which she lives are lined with 40 years' worth of movie mags. The room is also burdened with her diabetic husband Roy (Lee Wallace), who has a self-destructive mania for candy bars. To assume that the plot does not exist is merely to follow the playwright's lead, but it is more difficult to avoid Mildred's fantasy encounters with Shirley Temple, Gene Kelly and King Kong. These are as cute as quicksand and replete with campy posturing...