Word: manic
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...Action Army." Organizing the march on the tactical level was a manic task. Originally it was planned for Capitol Hill, but the Mob ended by adopting Rubin's suggestion that the Pentagon would be a more inviting and symbolic target. As rallyers offered their services, the committee divided them into 22 contingents, ranging from notables (Spock, Mailer, Poet Robert Lowell) to a Vietnamese contingent. A hippie outfit calling itself Wagon Wheels East purportedly set out from California replete with Shoshone Indians, trail scouts and medicine men ("compliments of Chief Rolling Thunder"), plus "junk cars, stolen buses, motorcycles, rock bands...
...middle-aging Beatle-manic mother, may I suggest that it is not "the parents who are targets of the Beatles' satirical gibes" but rather the soppy cult of pseudo-sacrifice wherein Aunt Bessie of the Missionary Society tells everyone about the hair shirt she has to wear because she donated all her brassières to the Uncivilized Savages...
...Manhattan, a neurotic off-duty postman (Eli Wallach) goes on the prowl. Tired of being a second-class male, he decides to turn himself into a parcel of sexual energy. Mumbling to pretty girls as they pass, he ends every sentence with a proposition-and remains ignored. In manic desperation, he zeroes in on a likely target, claps a raincoat over her head, and spirits her away to his apartment...
Obtuse, self-pitying, domineering, obsessive, hypocritical, opinionated, exacting, intolerant, selfish, malevolent, deluded, manic-in fact, just about every pejorative word in the language could be applied to Lucy Nelson. She is a young woman who would try a reader's patience in a short story; in a lengthy novel she can scarcely be borne...
...when he wrote, the result often surfaced not only in recollections of childhood (/, bristling and manic,/ skulked in the attic) but in raging descriptions of his tormented later years. In Life Studies, he portrays a wife, murmuring about her husband...