Word: manic
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...choice of pairing Harvest restaurant with the Joan Crawford film noir flick Mildred Pierce. True, the film centers on an obsessive restauranteur, but why Harvest? The tony bastion of Cambridge establishment eateries, tastefully done up in autumnal heather and beige and careful New American cuisine—and manic mother-daughter competition circa...
Mammone attributes the events surrounding his firing to a manic episode...
According to Rieker, a Harvard psychiatrist diagnosed her client as being in a highly manic state a month before his arrest. The weekend prior to the incident, Mammone had been transported to Boston Medical Center “based on paranoid behavior,” Rieker said. Mammone was later transferred to McLean Hospital, which specializes in mental health services, she said...
Cocky, offbeat choruses aside, Aesop’s style does not easily lend itself to performance. The congestion of syllables in his rhymes leaves little space for the declamatory style underpinning most rappers’ showmanship. At times, he seemed to struggle to keep up with the manic flow of words, his eyebrows leaping up while his lips worked furiously, though he never seemed to miss a beat. But he did run into trouble with the Yankees cap that he is seldom without, which he politely turned backwards in the face of the Boston crowd...
Jack Black is not a particularly funny man. He can pull off a one-liner, and he brightly sustains the Chris Farley torch of manic physical clowning, but it’s clear that his comedic range is inversely related to his girth. Fortunately, the producers of School of Rock have forged an ideal vehicle for Black’s brand of mischief, and with a sturdy cast and script behind him, he manages to whip up some of the biggest laughs of the year. Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist thrown out of his band, rendering him even less...