Word: manic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reddin is bringing off a rare double: while his words resound in Rum and Coke, he is onstage 20 blocks away in a manic revival of the 1930s farce Room Service, a portrait of pre-Broadway opening desperation. Reddin winningly playswhat else?--the playwright, a geeky kid from Oswego who eventually has to "die" for an hour and a half so that his show might live. Director Alan Arkin seems too conscious that Room Service was adapted as a Marx Brothers movie vehicle. Mark Hamill, the fresh-faced Luke Skywalker of the Star Wars series, is mustached and growly...
During its first half, the movie revolves around Eliot and Lee's affair and Holly's manic moods. Mickey begins a desperate search for "the meaning of it all," after a false alarm that he has cancer gives him an intimation of mortality. It is a world of petty vices like alcohol and cocaine. In the hierarchy of values, sexual pleasure ranks above marital fidelity and sibling loyalty...
...shift of taste that took New York art into the '80s. In a catalog essay to this show, Art Critic Roberta Smith puts her finger on the peculiar character of Bartlett's work: "a series of reflections--of the world, of other people's art . . . a sense of manic cerebralism and arbitrariness, a distance, even an indifference . . . riddled with sophisticated obviousness." The work is set up like an automatic mechanism, but hand-painted in a capricious parody of pictorial richness. A load of modernist signs for sensual delight--thick, ropy color that invokes the transparency of water, spots and scribbles...
...they can take part in several trends at once and get a smoother ride. Hasbro, Mattel and Coleco, the No. 3 toymaker, will account for about 35% of this year's industry revenues, compared with less than 15% five years ago. But these big firms now compete with a manic rivalry that resembles that of computer or soft-drink companies...
...whole, Medved is a lucky man. Hunt was "strongly entertaining the possibility of a major affective disorder, namely Bipolar Disorder or Manic Depressive Illness." But the mood passed. He "currently considers it more likely that [Medved] had an immature personality." Even "if he did suffer from Bipolar Disorder, then his jumping and defection attempt would likely have been secondary to the illness, and thus, still impulsive in nature...