Word: manic
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...just a professional doing my job.” Creasy, though, is the only one who is a real professional, the kind of hero who can inventively fashion an explosive suppository and staunch severed-finger wounds with an automobile cigarette lighter. (Walken, with the not-quite-provoked manic intensity that has made him a cult figure, enthusiastically tells the film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece” before one such scene.) Still, he is only cruel when it is necessary to draw...
Touring in support of their latest album Milk Man, the San Francisco foursome boasts a surplus of genre-violating instrumental experimentation in every song, as well as gloriously atonal yelping from manic lead singer Satomi Matsuzaki. Opening are 5471 and local noise-punkers Ho Ag. Tickets $10. 18+. 1 p.m. Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass...
Then there was that brief, manic period where the candidate was hailed by some as the Democratic messiah...
...spastic “KC Accidental” lent some power to the beginning of their set, with its start/stop guitar and manic drum breaks reminding the crowd why they had waited for several hours in sauna-like conditions to hear Broken Social Scene. The band proved that they had truly arrived with “Stars and Sons,” a plodding song accentuated by periodic bouts of clapping that got a room of hipper-than-thou indie types involved in some fashion of audience participation, if not actual dancing...
...book painstakingly progresses month by month, taking readers on a journey of journaling under trees, diet battles won and lost, manic depression diagnoses, multiple suicide attempts, Prozac and a pregnancy during which the author eats “onion rings the size of bracelets.” Is she an ectomorph who eats to live, a mesomorph who eats and lives, or an endomorph who lives to eat? Oh the traumas of the mind in biology class. Sounds more like Judy Blume writing her own version of Prozac Nation than Sylvia Plath’s prose...