Word: manically
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...approaching the limits of meaning in their abstract wanderings, it is the incredible, seamless continuity between disparate elements that gives their music its real significance. Their real skill lies not simply in their abilty in weaving dense sonic tapestries or deftly reinterpreting Hendrix classics, but in the way that "Manic Depression" can suddenly but not joltingly come boiling out of a wash of throbbing bass, fuzzed out organ and clanging, uneasy percussion...
...credit in history because they couldn't control the story line," Clinton said at the start of his second term in 1997, recounts speechwriter Michael Waldman in his new book, POTUS Speaks. Controlling the story line, therefore, is at the top of Clinton's agenda. The pursuit has been manic and ambitious in the past months: the China trade bill, the Camp David summit, eight foreign trips to 14 countries, a year-end legislative showdown with Congress, strategizing his wife's senatorial campaign, planning a historic visit to Vietnam. Says Douglas Brinkley, a historian and biographer of Jimmy Carter...
Predictably thrown over by a vain Vidal, Charity soon lands in a broken elevator with a claustrophobic tax accountant named Oscar, played by John P. Keefe '01. Oscar's phobia takes on manic proportions and becomes oppressive. But once safely out of the elevator, Keefe provides a compelling portrait of a bumbling introvert looking for love, but does not develop his character any further. As the long first act ends, the audience is firmly rooting for Charity and her worryingly normal boyfriend...
President Bartlet's manic attention to local school politics on a recent episode of NBC-TV's hit show The West Wing seems especially appropriate in the final days of this real-life American campaign. Anyone hearing George W. Bush and Al Gore might think that the big vote we're casting next week is really for superintendent in chief...
...humiliating for the former cigar-store Indian. Gore told the convention, "I stand here as my own man." He turned himself into an explosion of manic animation--pinwheeling and high-fiving across the American landscape, caring and sharing like nobody's business, the alpha male of millennial dream, his face a kaleidoscope of exuberance. And it hasn't worked. After all that profligate expenditure of self, he remains locked in a too-close-to-call race against a nice enough fellow from Texas and Yale whose mind, even in the midst of a presidential debate, seems to behave like...