Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their loss to Bill Clinton. Two years after that, the Democrats lost Congress so badly they were asking if the numbers would ever add up their way again. Now it's the Republicans, so euphoric in '94, hitting the skids again. Is it possible to talk about a manic-depressive cycle in the two-party system...
Ultimately, scientists would like to figure out how genetic defects cause depression, and then to design drugs to correct whatever has gone awry. Gene mapping would be particularly helpful to people at risk for manic-depressive illness: although lithium and related drugs usually relieve the manic episodes, current antidepressants are often ineffective against the acute depressive ones. Says Ascher: "That's the real frontier...
...must have our own proposal," Morris argued during a strategy session in the White House residence. Sitting in his usual pose--head cocked to one side, hands shaping the air in front of him, small frame pumped with manic energy--Morris urged Clinton to propose a capital-gains cut on Aug. 1, a few days before Dole was to release his plan. Clinton could say the cut would "pay for itself," Morris enthused, by stimulating investment and boosting tax revenue. But it was a brazen idea, an affront to the Administration's posture of fiscal rectitude. In fact, the White...
...screen lately, in Heat and City Hall, Pacino has grown more manic and mannerist. The finger snapping, the zany intensity of his stare and the sudden, ferocious barks are weirdly suggestive of the older, crabby, haunted Jerry Lewis. As Pacino soars into camp, one wonders: Is he a failed great actor or a great bad one? But onstage, he relaxes a bit. He knows the spectators are creating their own close-ups, so he plays piano: softer and with nuance. He gets to the tiredness of Erie and to the semisweet-chocolate heart of this frail playlet, and transforms...
...Multiplicity," starring Michael Keaton and Andie McDowell, is launched from a simple (yet unbelievable) premise. But it is Keaton's manic style and a tolerably clever script that make...