Word: manic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dread can be found in the editors' bridging commentary. As the youngest daughter of a successful Weston, Mass. businessman, Anne believed she had been neglected and unloved by her father. "Did I ever tell you about Elizabeth?" she writes to a friend many years later. "She's manic-Anne and sometimes sexy-Anne. You've seen her. But perhaps didn't know her name. My father called me 'a-little-bitch.' I thought he meant my name was Elizabeth...
...hunchback meet in the bell-tower to live happily ever after. In between there are enough subplots and romantic interludes to keep the audience pleasantly amused, waiting for the bad guys and good guys to have it out in the final scene. So far so good. But Borowitz's manic idea somehow falters on the way to the cathedral, as the characters find themselves spouting an assortment of intolerable puns, weak jokes about SAT scores, bestiality and the Catholic Church, and often tastelessly leering sexist remarks. Instead of serving as a fast-paced interlude between the big production numbers...
...local psychoanalyst who defines psychobabble as "just a way of using candor in order not to be candid" or, in other words, a vocabulary of terms lifted from psycho-analytic theory and popularized into meaninglessness. Think, for example, how often you use the words paranoid, fixation, neurotic, depressed, or manic when describing acquaintances. Such catch-phrases should be seen as "the expression not of a victory of de-humanization but as its latest and very subtlest victory over...
BACK IN THE '60s, riding the winds of manic craziness that filled the era, came what the straight press called "underground newspapers." The phenomenon began back before that, actually back in the summer of 1956, when the first Village Voice rolled off the presses in New York. The first issues of The Boston Phoenix and The Back Bay Guardian were based on the proposition that rock lyrics are poetry, too, and in an era of Dylan, Hendrix, Beatles and Stones, were for the most part sustained by a rock mania that translated into record and stereo ads. But if rock...
Lithium treatment, Tosteson says, is most often used to aid manic depressives. He says that in many manic depressives the red cell membrane has no system for regulating the transport of lithium. Tosteson hopes to examine the chromosomes of manic depressive individuals to see if there is a correlation between the presence of genes for the mental disorder and the presence of genes for the red cell membrane disorder...