Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Case in point: his live show at the Orpheum last Saturday night. From the last row of the balcony, I was not afforded a proper view of the rising star. The best I could make out was a gel-spiked head which bobbed furiously to the beat of the manic drummer. Clad in a black tank top which accentuated his spindly silhouette, Lang affected and effected the look of a rock star, a proto-Mick. He casually sauntered to and fro between lyrics, strumming with the ease of an old pro. But while the classic demeanor has been perfected...
...Jamison, a leading authority on manic-depressive illness discusses "A Life in Moods." Science Center C. 7:30 p.m. FREE...
...understand why people can get excited about a Cinderella team upsetting a high seed in the tournament. And I can even understand if Dicky V. gets a little manic as he analyzes the last few seconds of a close game...
Goodman's pop-rock score, almost entirely sung through, tends toward the predictable (there are songs, alas, called I Love Drugs and I Wanna Have Sex Tonight), but his lyrics are clever, fractured correlatives for the life-style he's chronicling ("One more topsy-turvy, hunky-dory, manic panic, magic high..."). And if the hard-rocking numbers never really get the pulse racing, the lyrical interludes give some excellent singers a chance to shine, particularly AnnMarie Milazzo as Jamie's mom, who sprinkles Happy Birthday Darling with country-and-western teardrops...
There's another reason why it's too early to bid farewell to the Monicorps. With three all-news networks slugging it out to deliver constant, inexpensive infotainment, talk shows populated by manic commentators are bound to proliferate. (MSNBC has started airing a version of NBC's McLaughlin Group--leather-lunged punditry distilled to its essence--four nights a week.) As with the O.J. trials, Monica has turned sometime "expert" analysts into full-time TV personalities: cybergossip Matt Drudge got a show on Fox News; flaxen-haired lawyer Cynthia Alksne now anchors MSNBC's Equal Time next to Oliver North...