Word: manic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTOR. In Director William Wyler's grisly but somewhat glamorized treatment of the bestseller by John Fowles, a lovely art student (Samantha Eggar) wages a war of nerves against a manic lepidopterist (Terence Stamp) who has arranged to lock her in a dungeon...
...what had happened to 200 new Citroën limousines ordered for the great occasion. And Des Pins, a once tranquil seaside resort where the Algerian government insisted to the bitter end that the second Afro-Asian Conference would take place this week on schedule, looked like a manic blend of Hellzapoppin and The Last Days of Pompeii...
...fire-breathing Catholic C.O., and made my manic statement, telling off the state and president, and then sat waiting sentence in the bull pen beside a Negro boy with curlicues of marijuana in his hair...
Such tactics, according to the statement, have created a "manic atmosphere...among the people of the area." MUNIT said it had appealed tot he University to ask Eisenberg realty Company, which represents the University, to change a methods...
...about it. Her most whimsical proposition is that she and Jerry make out in the phone booth while calling her minister back home in Indiana for his opinion on premarital relations. Jerry is not ready for such advanced technique, and their puppy-love affair soon becomes more depressive than manic, finally and affectingly (like the novel) whimpers...