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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...McCartney and backed by church bells and violins, it’s effectively the most saccharine thing since Candy Land. 3. Think your essay lacks coherence? Don’t worry. Sir Paul and Youth one-upped you there too. “Electric Arguments” is a manic hodge-podge of songs. The noise heavy, Black Keys-esque opening track, “Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight,” suddenly jumps to the much folksier “Two Magpies,” reminiscent of McCartney’s solo career. The tone somehow...

Author: By Erika P. Pierson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Fireman | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...helped revolutionize rock drumming with his finesse. As journalist and musician Felix Contreras noted, Mitchell held his sticks like a jazz player, lightly between his thumb and two fingers, sometimes losing them during performances, to little negative effect. Still, he could propel a song: on tracks like "Fire" and "Manic Depression" he proved a perfect match for Hendrix's guitar. Even after the band split, the two performed together at Woodstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitch Mitchell | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Dave Gibbons comes across like a pretty regular English bloke, apart from his manic verbal energy and his aesthetically advanced glasses. But he is, in fact, a genius - one of the major comic book artists of the 21st century, or the 20th, or really any other century you care to name. Along with writer Alan Moore, he is one half of the team that in 1986 created the seminal Watchmen, a graphic novel so painstakingly crafted and darkly radical that its publication changed the superhero genre forever. If you're wondering where The Dark Knight got its darkness, look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watchmen's Dave Gibbons | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...Your professor is bipolar, and his manic phase ended after shopping week. Permanently...

Author: By Stephanie M Bucklin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Reasons to Drop A Class | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...number of ways, and it may be that we're going to have trouble finding out how to solve it, but at the same time life goes on, you know. Businesses are beginning to know that they have in their employment people who are mentally ill, people who have manic-depression, who have depression, who have schizophrenia, who suffer from alcoholism. And businesses are finding out that they are better off giving them treatment and buying insurance that covers their treatment because if you can keep them well and get them their medicine, you add to their productivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senator Pete Domenici on Mental Health | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

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