Word: manic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French oil-rich, noted before seeing the Saint Laurent collection in the laurel-bedecked ballroom of the Crillon, "We can't really expect them to keep coming up with something new twice a year, though that is what we are demanding." What Paris offered last week was manic vacillation...
...bravura monologue about a train journey across the map of the U.S. that contains every old movie cliche, engrained national myth, sentimental hyperbole and travel-brochure bait ever known to a British tourist, or to many an American for that matter. As Brooke masterfully delivers it, this becomes a manic poetic aria of cumulative exhilaration...
...Wolfe really the murderer? Through most of the book, neither Bone nor the reader can be quite sure, though circumstantial evidence certainly points that way. In any case. Bone cannot stop Cutter's quest for "justice." True to form, he tags along through a series of manic misadventures involving more sex and booze than sleuthing. Tension mounts. Can respectable Wolfe be responsible for the fire that guts Cutter's house and kills his girl and their baby son? Finally the odd pair journey to Wolfe's home in Missouri-and doom...
...then down to serious business. The Cardinals wrestle against the Cowboys and your football blood starts on its slow boil. These games are always exciting and bring out the manic fool in you. You spend two hours yelling absurd things like "DECK HIM! DECK HIM!," and the game's inevitable last-second finish leaves you shaking and babbling all night like a refrigerator on the fritz. That night nothing except counting audibles will put you to sleep...
...small wiry man with an intense stare and a manic thirst for promotion, Christo, 41, is no stranger to large projects. He first came to the art world's attention in the late '50s and early '60s by swathing all manner of objects-chairs, trees, cars, women, motorcycles and, in 1968 at "Documenta" in Kassel, West Germany, a 280-ft. column of air-with rope, canvas and sheet plastic. If this all amounted to little more than a series of energetic variations on Man Ray's 1920 Enigma of Isidore Ducasse (a sewing machine wrapped...