Word: manic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...labyrinth of secrets that outsiders imagine. For this week's cover story on defense, Correspondents Bruce Nelan and Jerry Hannifin penetrated the maze and found, according to Hannifin, that the military is "one of the most accessible beats in Washington." "It's no bunker filled with manic Strangeloves planning the next war," says Nelan. "It's really like any other big company, except that its business is national security. People stop to chat in the halls, and the doors of the brass are open...
...overall style has been imposed. The result is disappointingly uneven. In part two (1760-1820), Gordon S. Wood discusses the celebrated 1801 Cane Ridge revival, a bizarre religious event in Kentucky where, according to contemporary accounts, thousands fell into frenzied ecstasies. Wood captures none of its manic exuberance. In part three (1820-1860), David Brion Davis by contrast manages to make the often opaque character of Ralph Waldo Emerson both fascinating and comprehensible. Davis, who won his Pulitzer for The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, also offers a splendid essay on the Mormon experience as a paradigm of American...
...holding auditions Monday, call for a slot and ask for Harry if you think you've got the stuff. On the other hand, if you think you've got something, but it's not contagious, look for Peter C. Johnson, formerly of Peter C. Johnson and the Manic-Depressives, tonight and Friday, and Peter Bell next Tuesday. Johnson has an outstanding repertoire of folk-rock Cambridge bar songs; Bell, who up until a few months ago played with the James Montgomery Band, does folk-bluesy stuff...
...receives a laurel wreath; other top finishers get medals worth little more than the cost of the bus ride they have just avoided; all finishers are granted a bowl of generally inedible beef stew. Yet since 1897, the marathon has drawn an ever widening group of manic adherents...
...romantically unsuccessful Bogart fan. In Bogart Allen has found the perfect role model for the short uglies of the world; after all, for Bogie--and life--dames are simple. This is the only one of Allen's films that he does not direct himself, and what is lost in manic humor is gained in coherence and sensitivity. Diane Keaton plays the paramour as usual with a perfect blend of love, whine, and neurosis. And the brilliant recreation of the famous Casablanca airport scene seems a perfect ending touch to this wonderful film...