Word: manic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Here in the Manchester campaign headquarters “War Room” of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., Rubins’ manic energy blends in among the other two dozen staffers working to win “Joe” the Democratic nomination...
...Harvard’s selective admissions process encourages. Many students who survive Byerly Hall owe their success to their unrelenting superegos, flogging them onward towards ever more precocious achievement. Torn between an exceptionality they love and a normalcy few others will acknowledge, Harvard students find themselves attracted to a manic social scene that is stodgy by week and unmoored by weekend. Dr. Perfection and Mr. Lush co-exist tensely somewhere between Harvard’s academic grind and the wassailing grind-fest of Harvard State University’s parties...
Particularly outstanding was Joshua M. Brener ’07 as Lloyd, the director of Nothing On; Brener’s exasperation, exhaustion and manic self-dramatizing perfectly captured Lloyd’s overwhelmed and overeducated personality. Margaret A. Weathers ’04 was fine as Belinda, the play’s straight woman and Nothing On’s only cast member without major physical or emotional problems; her constant attempts to restore the squabbling cast to order were accompanied by a businesslike aplomb and a tight, cheery grin. And Sara E. O’Brien...
...choice of pairing Harvest restaurant with the Joan Crawford film noir flick Mildred Pierce. True, the film centers on an obsessive restauranteur, but why Harvest? The tony bastion of Cambridge establishment eateries, tastefully done up in autumnal heather and beige and careful New American cuisine—and manic mother-daughter competition circa...
According to Rieker, a Harvard psychiatrist diagnosed her client as being in a highly manic state a month before his arrest. The weekend prior to the incident, Mammone had been transported to Boston Medical Center “based on paranoid behavior,” Rieker said. Mammone was later transferred to McLean Hospital, which specializes in mental health services, she said...