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...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...
...Beanpot mania arrived at the Bright Hockey Center last night as the Harvard women's hockey team advanced into next Tuesday's finals of the 17th Annual Women's Hockey Beanpot with a solid 3-2 win over Boston College. B.C. 2 Harvard...
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...
...doing it worth so much travail? This now paranoid critic thinks so. Adair's translation is an astounding Anglicization of Francophonic mania, a daunting triumph of will pushing its way through imposing roadblocks to a magical country, an absurdist nirvana, of humor, pathos and loss. Go forth to your local bookstall or library, pay $24 for or borrow a copy of A Void, and savor it slowly. But stay wary and vigilant, and mind your ps and qs, to say nothing at all about your ... Aaiioouugh...