Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like all good industrial music, Nine Inch Nails' sound is so overwhelmingly technical that it becomes primal. Speed ("Wish" clocks in at 180 beats per minute) and volume give the EP a sense of manic urgency. Broken also celebrates destructive impulse in all its magnetic horror and beauty. It is violence you can dance to. "1000 lips/ 1000 tongues/ 1000 throats/ 1000 lungs/ 1000 ways to make it true/ I want to do terrible things...
Allen's sister, Letty Aronson, a vice president at Manhattan's Museum of Television and Radio, catalogs Farrow's sins: "Mia adopts children in a manic nature -- not for their needs but for hers. She favors her biological children while treating the older adopted kids as servants. I think Mia always had a grand plan to meet Woody, have a relationship with him, be in his films and eventually have his child. Once she did, things began to deteriorate. But even after she knew about Woody's affair, she still wanted to continue her relationship. If he gave up Soon...
...never heard techno pop so self-indulgent. The electronic gadgets beep and boom in delicious excess--"S.O.S." sounds like R2D2 having an orgasm. The album is so incredibly boppy and catchy it's downright scary; these melodies will stick in your head obsessively, providing a manic soundtrack to your thoughts for weeks to come...
...Down the Rabbitt's Rectum") and Dante's Inferno in others (Bubbles falls through the concentric underwater circles of the Harlem River which is populated with the floating corpses of pimps, numbers runners and crackheads). At times, the novel approaches the off-Kilter horror of those classic with its manic, madcap parade of freakish characters...
...power of his debut. One night he is a lisping, languorous biblical potentate, concealing deadly willfullness within a Bette Davis-like camp distraction, as King Herod in Oscar Wilde's Salome. The next night, in the new Chinese Coffee by the relatively unknown Ira Lewis, Pacino is a manic-depressive novelist-cum-doorman, living on the extreme margins of the arts world in Manhattan and dreaming that the next confessional, autobiographical manuscript will justify his colossal self-importance. The only thing the roles have in common is that both show off his grace with language, whether Wilde's shimmering, overripe...