Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quips Sarah Payne Stuart's family psychiatrist in Stuart's My First Cousin Once Removed, a painfully funny and poignant memoir about life in the Boston Brahmin Lowell clan (known best as a family running short on both money and sanity). The book centers specifically on the neurotic and manic depressive genius of Robert Lowell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning confessional poet-cum-activist and titular "first cousin" of the author's mother (hence the author is "removed" from him by one generation). Sarah Payne Stuart '73 treats "Bobby" (as the family called Robert Lowell) as both a biological and literary...
When Pam, a lab research assistant at a Midwestern company, was called in for her annual review recently, her boss was sympathetic about the sharp decline in her job performance. He knew that Pam, a recovering alcoholic, had been battling manic depression and grieving over a death in her family. What he didn't know, however, was that Pam had been spending up to six hours of her workday sending e-mail to friends and playing electronic games. The consequences of Pam's compulsion extend beyond the work time lost. "Sometimes I forget where I'm at, and I might...
...Internet, compulsive computer use and just plain computer addiction are a few monikers--let alone what causes it. A recent study by a group of psychiatrists at the University of Cincinnati suggests that people hooked on the Internet may also suffer from underlying but treatable illnesses such as manic depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse. But the jury is still out on whether compulsive computer use is a disorder in its own right--like pathological gambling--or a symptom of another illness...
...beats, ingenious mixing and more mad beats make Brother's Gonna Work It Out, the new DJ mix album by the Chemical Brothers a magnificent record. The Chemical Brothers sampled from and remixed songs by a number of other bands: The Micronauts, Spiritualized, Unique 3, Willie Hutch and Manic Street Preachers to name a few. Listening to this compilation of house techno gives an impression of an actual live performance of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, the duo who are the Chemical Brothers...
...recognize many of the original records that the Chemical Brothers have mixed. It is hard to appreciate a remix without ever having heard the original version. For these people, tracks three and four may drag on. However, the album does finish with mixes of two very familiar songs: Manic Street Preachers' "Everything Must Go" and Spiritualized's "I Think I'm In Love." The effects and rhythms sampled into "Everything Must Go" make it stand out as a great moment in the record. Just as Brother's Gonna Work It Out started out with the same opening number...