Word: manically
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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That first line of Amy Winehouse’s “Back to Black” encapsulates the entirety of the singer-songwriter’s sophomore effort. It’s like listening to a severely psychotic, irreparably damaged, and bitterly immature manic-depressive singing her woes—and it’s highly gratifying. With a voice that harkens back to Lauryn Hill, Macy Gray, and Aretha Franklin—or all of them rolled into one—Winehouse can definitely sing, but it’s ultimately her personality that carries the album...
...likes it. But what's funny is that when I talk about how my daughter laughs about my manic depression, the audience claps. They're glad she's okay...
...often nonsensical humor at its height. As the film’s producer, Coolidge gives her usual hysterical, Botox-enhanced performance. O’Hara—playing the role of the aging actress with emerging hopes of winning an Oscar—develops her character with the same manic disposition that so highlights her previous roles in Guest’s films. Posey, the young star in “Home for Purim,” continues to one-up herself as the champion of Guest’s improvisational styled humor. Unlike previous films...
Ordinary novelists have readers. Thomas Pynchon has decoders. Anyone who has ventured into the manic densities of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon knows the drill. You comb through his superabundance of historical data and scientific arcana. You adjust your nerve endings to operate at his mad frequencies. Day after day you resume the steep ascent of his achievement and just hope to make camp before nightfall...
...tough adjustment. Williamson developed emotional problems; doctors whispered about manic depression and even schizophrenia. He drank and chased women and bounced from job to job, clinging to the delusion that his career wasn't over. He had a knack for making the worst of his bad luck, and his luck was terrible...