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...Manhattan, he served as an apprentice to photographers at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and was soon shooting photos for those and other prestige magazines. His work ranged from flower studies to portraits of such celebrities as Sting, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. In 1981 he was diagnosed with manic depression but credited his manic highs for much of his artistic creativity...
...letter to administrators last year, Elizabeth J. Quinn ’04 described a friend who, after being placed in a psychiatric hospital following a manic episode, got medication from a UHS psychiatrist weekly for three months without getting any therapy...
Here in the Manchester campaign headquarters “War Room” of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., Rubins’ manic energy blends in among the other two dozen staffers working to win “Joe” the Democratic nomination...
...Harvard’s selective admissions process encourages. Many students who survive Byerly Hall owe their success to their unrelenting superegos, flogging them onward towards ever more precocious achievement. Torn between an exceptionality they love and a normalcy few others will acknowledge, Harvard students find themselves attracted to a manic social scene that is stodgy by week and unmoored by weekend. Dr. Perfection and Mr. Lush co-exist tensely somewhere between Harvard’s academic grind and the wassailing grind-fest of Harvard State University’s parties...
Particularly outstanding was Joshua M. Brener ’07 as Lloyd, the director of Nothing On; Brener’s exasperation, exhaustion and manic self-dramatizing perfectly captured Lloyd’s overwhelmed and overeducated personality. Margaret A. Weathers ’04 was fine as Belinda, the play’s straight woman and Nothing On’s only cast member without major physical or emotional problems; her constant attempts to restore the squabbling cast to order were accompanied by a businesslike aplomb and a tight, cheery grin. And Sara E. O’Brien...