Word: manic
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...don’t know what I’ve done to deserve you” over distorted guitar plucking and backward percussion that make the listener wonder whether those words convey love or just paralyzing fear.“We Carry On,” the most manic of the 11 tracks, begins frantically, with factory beats and soundboard wails that carry the song forward into a hypnotic blur, before Utley erases it all with a decayed guitar riff that revives the last minute. This gives way to the album’s single anomaly—the totally...
Somewhere between the giddy, manic weirdness of 2005’s “Get Behind Me Satan” and the gut-busting wheeze of last year’s “Icky Thump,” White Stripes’ prime mover Jack White decided to take a break from his own expectations and tried to satisfy some of his fans’. Of course, the perennial question on the minds of every new-blues neophyte grooving to the likes of “Fell in Love with a Girl” or “Ball...
Again, in the absence of any rigorous evidence, I would suggest that the transfer students I’ve met here have not been more driven (read: manic) than their lifer counterparts, but less so: they seem to have ended up where they know they will be not merely successful but happy. Whereas each class of high school seniors that touches down in Cambridge each fall undoubtedly consists of a sizable pack of strays who, in search of some pedigree in the snafu of college applications, have ended up where they can afford to be dedicated to success and little...
...Breaking Bad” is about pouting, not shouting. In order for this premise to work, we have to believe that this mild-mannered chemistry teacher is crazy enough to think that becoming a meth-maker is the best way to finance those oncology bills. Cranston has the latent manic energy to make us believe that, but creator Vince Gilligan seems set on not letting that energy show. Cranston does an admirable job of playing the part with as much restraint as possible, but anyone who’s seen what he can do aches for those moments of unabashed...
...Driving Miss Daisy” all get their own indie treatments, to the delight of those within and without the film. Gondry turns the audience into children again, as they giddily await each brilliant novelty.Comedic foil Black makes for a great pied piper. He brings a manic, absurd energy to his character that doesn’t ask viewers to suspend their disbelief so much as thrash them into submission. Exuberance and relentlessness on his part make up for Mos Def’s hopelessly awkward dialogue: he mumbles, murmurs, and slurs his words so frequently that its difficult...