Word: manias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dudayev: It really doesn't matter. Communist or fascist, they all suffer from Russian-itis, a kind of Russian mania for world domination. At least if the communists take over, they'll have to work hard to prove their commitment to law and democracy, while the incumbent regime is openly criminal...
Maybe it's no coincidence then that Forbes' column, "Fact and Comment," which has run in Forbes since the mid-1970s, reveals an absolute mania for cutting taxes and preserving "sound money." Everyone has heard about Forbes' flat tax. But what else does he stand for? Where Malcolm Forbes was famous for collecting Faberge eggs and toy soldiers, Steve Forbes' writings show him to be a collector of policy fetishes that range from mainstream to downright odd. The one constant is their angle of vision, which, as befits an heir, is decidedly a view from...
...Golden Globes' well-rated return to network TV (after years on cable and syndication) was something of a milestone in TV's awards-show mania. Little more than a decade ago, the big four--the Oscars, Tonys, Emmys and Grammys--pretty much had the field to themselves. Now it seems as though every Hollywood interest group, craft union and country-music association has its own awards--and a TV special to trumpet them. More than 30 awards shows will be seen on national TV this year, and the high season is just beginning: 10 of them will be crowded into...
...hero is a middle-age intelligence operative put to pasture by bosses who decide (wrongly, as it turns out) that his skills and mind-set are obsolete. A bittersweet love affair winds through a landscape of modern menace, whose vectors, by now quite familiar, are ethnic and religious mania...
Amir saw himself as an agent of God, much as Lee Harvey Oswald saw himself as an agent of "history." The young man's mania lay in this desire for greatness. Amir created a destiny for himself that would make him greater than Rabin. One brutal act would propel him out of obscurity. One brutal act would make him a hero or a martyr...