Word: manic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manic manicure dates back about three years in Southern California, where the trend started. Now, according to professionals, cuticle consciousness is exploding like a pinkie sunburst...
Kety's work helped reveal a link between mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and manic depression with chemical imbalances in the brain, the foundation said. It also indicated that the tendency towards these disorders may be hereditary...
Kety said that evidence for his discovery about mental disorders came from several observations including an observation that the tendency towards mental illness is seemingly more dominant in families that have a prior history of schizophrenia or manic depression...
...work--the subduing of a larger spirit by a smaller one, the wrongful exertion of parental authority, the disillusionment of a woman with the man she loves--and finds their origin in the shaping events of her life, including her unhappy marriage to the charming intellectual lightweight (and later, manic-depressive) Teddy Wharton and her abortive relationship with Fullerton...
...Goodman as the effeminate Wren and Sam Bloomfield as Mr. Paravicini. Goodman minces marvelously through his role as the child-like homosexual, and Bloomfield, clad in an elegant dinner jacket and bedizened with rings, gives a superbly controlled performance as the uninvited guest. Also good is Mark Howard, appropriately manic as Detective Sergeant Trotter. Nancy Abrams makes a stony-faced Mrs. Boyle, although her carefully accented syllables sound too much like metered poetry...