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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...makes for good company. A pleasure-seeker, he travels ceaselessly, eats and drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical panoramas--the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War--and has some cheeky fun with celebrity cameos: Picasso appears as a manic Left Bank chatterbox, Virginia Woolf as a venomous cocktail-party boor, and in what amounts to literary incest, Mountstuart indulges in a brief snog with Waugh himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drinker, Writer, Lover, Spy | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...just as funny as the ones on TV!--"is really just a sentence." In one episode, we meet Joe Mozian, a stay-at-home dad from Old Greenwich, Conn., who seems to have learned how to be a husband and father by watching THE KING OF QUEENS. A relentlessly manic overgrown kid, he opens the episode with the one line you never want a show about a pudgy white man to begin with: "Hey, want to hear the new rap I wrote?" The network brings in a professional comedy writer to observe the Mozians, and she quickly concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack Of The Killer B-List | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...drug does have its risks. According to several clinical studies, Prozac is associated with insomnia, restlessness, nausea, weakness, loss of appetite and tremors. For up to 60% of users, Prozac will interfere with their sex drive. Given indiscriminately to manic-depressives, it can trigger serious manic episodes. And there is anecdotal evidence linking Prozac with suicide and other violent behavior, although whether Prozac or the underlying depression is to blame is still an open question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If Everyone Were on Prozac ... | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

BIPOLAR DISORDER About 2.3 million adult Americans are manic-depressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through The Ages | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

Barris is still manic, running around his Upper East Side apartment trying to document the truth of his life, displayed in the photos of him with celebrities that hang everywhere. In one picture, taken during the period when, in the book and movie, he lived in a hotel as a hermit, he lies in a well-decorated party room watching a basketball game with John Cassavetes. "Peter Falk was in the bathroom," he explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lying to Tell the Truth: CHUCK BARRIS | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

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