Word: manias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Microsoft's primary focus right now is the Internet. Gates in April 1994 called an off-site meeting of his top staff to talk about a technology that had been around for 20 years but had suddenly exploded. Gates confessed that the Internet "mania," as he called it, had taken him by surprise. Millions of people were communicating via computers using software standards and application programs that Microsoft had no hand in developing. Gates could even foresee a day when Microsoft's bread-and-butter programs would be cut out of the market because they didn't work well...
...always drawn Americana-loving retirees and teachers planning school trips. But a more recent wave of visitors now seeks out such outre characters as drag queen Lady Chablis, flamboyant chanteuse Emma Kelly and the voodoo priestess Minerva. TIME staff writer Ginia Bellafante says it's all part of the mania inspired by journalist John Berendt's long-running true-crime bestseller, which just passed the one-year mark on The New York Times bestseller list. The book, now being developed as a movie by Warner Brothers, chronicles a notorious 1981 Savannah murder case. But, Bellafante says, its host of eccentric...
...critics seem to have been provoked, as much as anything else, by the wall labels he rashly insisted on appending to his work. All that these revealed was the vice of the autodidact-a mania for cultural name dropping. They read like Woody Allen. Thus Baseball, 1983-84, came garnished with references to Red Smith, Bill James, Velazquez, Durer, Max Brod, Satchel Paige and, of course, Kafka; while The Sensualist, 1973-84, was prefaced by quotes from Picasso ("My one and only master!") and Matisse ("It is undoubtedly to Matisse that I owe the most"). Then Kitaj: "Cazanne...
Bipolar, or manic, depression is characterizedby cyclic fluctations between depressed states andstates of mania, or hyperactivity...
Symptoms of mania include increased energy anddecreased need for sleep, inappropriate excitementor irritability and impulsive behavior and poorjudgment...