Word: manic
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...case you didn't notice, The Producers, in its several incarnations, basically benignly blesses the low-business heart of anything-goes show business. The film-from-a-musical-from-a-film is a hard-driving hymn to crooked producers, manic sight gags and a complete indifference to questions of good taste and large meaning...
...something like that. Jujitsu is an ancient and honorable political strategy: if you are clever, you can upend your opponent by leveraging the force of his own assertions. But these are not clever times in Washington. The President has taken to the manic repetition of the word victory, apparently on the advice of a Duke University professor, Peter Feaver, a new addition to the National Security Council staff. Feaver conducted a cold-blooded review of recent polling and concluded that the American public would be more tolerant of the carnage if victory, whatever that means, were the likely result...
...charismatic or talented a rapper as Eminem, which deflates the aspiring rapper storyline. He delivers lines with almost laughable disinterest (though it’s not quite funny), and the scenes of Marcus writing rhymes or spitting a cappella verses lack the passion of Eminem’s manic scribbling or his showdowns with the Free World. With 50’s lazy slur and strangely sensual voice, he sounds pretty weak before hot production pumps up his sound. Furthermore, his insatiable need to flood the rap market with “G-G-G-G-Unit...
...Gehry, 64, seems to become fresher and more creative as he ages. This year's masterwork is the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The smallish museum concentrates on 20th century American art, and the exterior can be seen as a tough, gleefully manic (that is, American) work of Cubist sculpture or as a giant brushed-stainless-steel popcorn kernel, or as a wizard's castle in some 23rd century fairy tale. Inside, where huge skylights bathe the galleries in sunlight, the feeling is serene but never static...
DIED. TOWNES VAN ZANDT, 52, country singer whose dark recordings about life's losers included Pancho and Lefty (recorded by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard); of a heart attack; in Smyrna, Tennessee. Born to wealth, Van Zandt spent part of his teens institutionalized for manic depression. At one point he became so poor he subsisted on dog food. But his songs influenced generations of country and rock singers, from Neil Young to the Cowboy Junkies...