Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...label" prescribing can be tricky. When a drug is tested and a dosage is set for an adult body, the same medication given to a person half the size can have unexpected effects. Antidepressants can lead to agitation and nervousness in anyone; in children, they may trigger full-blown manic episodes...
Striving for timelessness can take time, and the recording process was a long, arduous one. Horn signed on to the project, was pushed off of it while Seal explored his options with two other producers, and then was invited back to finish the record. "[Seal] got a bit manic with the whole thing," says Horn. "He was going through a fair amount of turmoil as we started working. By the end of the record it was like having an old friend back. Taking people, calling them a star, it screws people's heads up. It did change him a little...
...possible that Beat bad boy JACK KEROUAC was as pragmatic, as structured, as hopelessly square as everyone else in the Eisenhower '50s? In the latest issue of the Atlantic Monthly, historian Douglas Brinkley deflates the myth that Kerouac pounded out On the Road in a three-week burst of manic energy sustained by jazz and Benzedrine. After sifting through documents to which he was recently granted access by Kerouac's estate, Brinkley reveals that the author, who died in 1969, actually planned, plotted and outlined his homage to nomadic nonconformity well before writing the novel's final draft...
...wonder whether the weirdness is unintentional, or whether Depeche Mode may have a fetish for appearing goofy. Maybe it's a big joke on the listeners. The terrible screeching that opens "I Feel You," the stereophonic mayhem in "Behind the Wheel," and the sounds of the manic jogger in "Personal Jesus" could only be jokes, right? Right? (Nervous laughter...
...herself.From this self-awareness stems her charming wit,uproariously deadpan delivery of madcap WASPmaneuverings and an impeccable sense of comictiming, matched with a poet's (or at leastrelated-to-a-poet's) awareness and a mother'stenderness. She is quick to admit to the bigoted,petty and, yes, manic shortcomings of hermuch-institutionalized family, but just as quickto admit her own shortcomings and accept them all.As this first cousin knows, being neurotic isgood, but knowing you're neurotic is even better