Word: manic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article "The Wall Triumphant," describing Berliners as "embittered and demoralized" in their "rundown and dreary" surroundings [Aug. 23], only furthers the myth of a Berlin populated by a handful of manic-depressive refugees clothed in gray sweatshirts. To the 2 million-plus people living freely within the 185 square miles of West Berlin, your comments ring contrary to a firm belief- "Berlin ist eine Reise wert" (Berlin is worth a journey...
...Bicentennial may or may not be recalled as a year of great achievement for U.S. museums, but it has certainly nurtured some of their endemic ills. One of these is a manic itch to overdress exhibitions. It is highly contagious, and now sweeps through the Whitney Museum, whose big Bicentennial show, "200 Years of American Sculpture," opened this month. This is a historically complex and potentially important survey, involving seven curators, 345 works of art and a catalogue as thick as a phone book. But in order to secure impact, the Philadelphia pop architects Venturi & Rauch were engaged to package...
...Inserts is sex and sexual inadequacy as a metaphor for the inability to cope with life in general. The big joke during the film is that The Boy Wonder is sexually impotent: "You couldn't get his rope to rise with a magic flute." The Boy Wonder's manic need to make films is a form of sexual displacement--perhaps it is the need for gratification that drives him to make "five-and-dime films" when he has been forced from "real films." In a confrontation with Cathy Cake he is made to face the full reality of his impotence...
Sometimes he describes himself as a manic-depressive, but more often he prefers to characterize himself merely as a simple man. "There are two things I cannot do without," he said. "Crudely stated they are work and women, and more gently--creative effort in all directions...
Blitz Alert. Some 50,000 to 100,000 Americans are now on lithium, and Fieve thinks "millions more" could benefit from it. Critics complain that the drug is already reaching patients who are not manic-depressives. Fieve thinks wider use is bound to come. His own four-year study reports lithium is "clearly effective" for severe recurrent depression. The drug is now being tested for everything from schizophrenia to alcoholism and aggressive behavior. The drug is nonaddictive but must be carefully monitored, and blood levels should be checked frequently; an overdose can bring on coma or death. Cautions Dr. Ralph...