Word: manic
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...President Bartlet's manic attention to local school politics on a recent episode of NBC-TV's hit show "The West Wing" seems especially appropriate in the final days of this real-life American campaign. Anyone hearing George W. Bush and Al Gore might think that the big vote we're casting next week is really for superintendent in chief...
...many changes/And I can take or leave it as I please") that the lyrics had to be excised for the TV version of M*A*S*H, and the attempt to return it to cultural consciousness is well appreciated. (Actually, a great cover of the song already exists: the Manic Street Preachers did one way back in the early...
...board were sounding full of "Panglossian optimism." No, the economists did not contend that this is the best of all possible worlds. But like Voltaire's Dr. Pangloss, they did insist that developments that at first glance might seem bad are actually good. Specifically, the slowdown in growth from manic annual rates of 6% for the most recent 12 months--the last half of 1999 and the first half of this year--and an unbelievable 8.3% in last year's final quarter...
...stars give their roles a dizzy spin. Dorff's Cecil sports a manic gleam that could be dementia or star quality (if there's a difference), and Griffith is aces as the Hollywood harridan; when she sees her super-stretch limo, in white, she snarls, "Do I look like a coke dealer?" Maybe Waters is ironizing his anger at the movie brats who have stolen his attitude but don't understand his spirit. If so, the master is giving the kids a lesson here. Cecil B. proves how a dose of smart bad taste can be jolly good...
...manic pace of Saigon carries over to the streets, where swarms of motorbikes zip through intersections. Cars are too expensive, but the motorbike is at the top of everyone's must-have list. Young bloods race them after dark, and couples use them as a place of intimacy: Vietnamese don't kiss in public, but women know how to hug their boyfriends tightly from behind...