Word: manically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Exams begin today. Just another manic Monday. Wish it were Sunday, and I was sitting on the shores of Lake Quinsigamond as boats pass...
...husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that her manic-depressive episodes, which she now controls with lithium, could have a genetic component, she began a search for her biological parents. She returned to the small Jewish orphanage, with its stacks of cribs and bunk beds ("My competitiveness comes from having had to scream the loudest for attention"), and managed...
Their next project, Airplane!, took six years to get to the screen. Every studio rejected their idea for the manic, offbeat satire of everything from film tradition to religion to drug abuse. But the old rags-to-riches fable came true for the team when Paramount finally picked up the film and it became a smash...
WRITTEN by political cartoonist and occasional screenwriter Jules Feiffer, Knock Knock is described by its producers as "a manic farce about Joan of Arc and two other guys...
...mighty hot in the basement space known as the Quincy House Cage. This seems appropriate for what Knock Knock's producers describe as a "manic farce about Joan of Arc and two other guys." Playwright Jules Feiffer is best known for his political cartoons, but he has written the screenplays to such manic farces as Robert Altman's Popeye...