Word: manic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Dawson's studies of urine samples from 3,000 Texans, El Paso's water is heavily laced with lithium, a tranquilizing chemical widely used in the treatment of manic depression and other psychiatric disorders. He notes that Dallas, which has low lithium levels because it draws its water from surface supplies, has "about seven times more admissions to state mental hospitals than El Paso." But state mental health officials point out that the mental hospital closest to Dallas is 35 miles from the city, while the one nearest El Paso is 350 miles away...
...league football contests each fall. The policy is at the same time wise and a little dangerous, for while neighboring opponents such as Tufts. Boston University and Holy Cross usually present no more than minor problems to the Crimson, they always come to the Stadium in a rather manic emotional state, and occasionally escape with a victory. This sort of thing, as you remember, happened as recently as seven days...
...Steve and Joel Polinsky, you begin to wonder why, if they are seriously interested in this acting business, they don't join up with a real troupe of actors. Joel, especially, has a nice manic quality, making him a kind of elongated Eliot Gould. But "Changes" is just too riddled with meaningless pretention to challenge what talent is there. Take its subtitle for example--"An Original 'Circus-of-the-Mind' Tragi-Comedy in Three Episodes"--no actor should have to pretend to be performing in such a cerebral bigtop...
Skolimowski fills his backgrounds with imagery (a painter covering a wall in red, a man in the swimming pool rolling over and over in a kayak) that is both disorienting and quite funny. Mike is clearly descended from the manic protagonists embodied by Jean-Pierre Leaud in Godard's films and in Skolimowski's Le Départ. They all suffer their youth as if it were a wound...
Adam, in short, possesses some of the manic gifts that used to be associated with divine madness. Like Dostoevsky's Prince Myshkin, he sees only absolutes in a world of ostensible reason. Almost singlehanded, he gives gnarled life to this book, the third novel of Israeli Author Yoram Kaniuk...