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...inmates. Derrah and Geidt start off by creating an atmosphere of subdued surrealism that clues us in to the weirdness ahead. As a human television in Act Two, Derrah switches channels effortlessly. Sitting to the side, looking straight ahead, and wrapped in a straitjacket, he transfers his voice with manic precision from soap opera to BBC documentary to laundry commercial...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Curtain Call: | 2/27/1987 | See Source »

...simultaneously manipulating their insanity into hilarious buffoonery. A headcase in point is John Bottoms as the Man With Synthetic Bodily Fluids. He practically steals the show with his twisted non sequiturs, including a description of a suit made of polyester blood. And Jeremy Geidt turns in a wonderfully manic performance as a man obsessed with conversation...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: STAGE | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...particular victim of the script is George Klupko (Colonel O'Korn) who has to utter some terrible lines, but nonetheless manages to slug through the material to the bitter end. Klupko creates a manic melange of Colonel Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn, but his battle with his lines is short-lived and futile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bye Bye, Bye Bye Verdi | 2/25/1987 | See Source »

...commotions quite like the Great Stock Market Spectacular of 1986. Up! Up! Up! Down! Down! Down! The Dow Jones average of industrial stocks is taking sharper, swifter leaps and dives than ever before. Buy! Buy! Buy! Sell! Sell! Sell! The biggest stock boom on record is leading to manic levels of activity on the nation's exchanges. Win! Win! Win! Millions, even billions, are being pocketed almost overnight, in split-second transactions affecting the fate of some of America's most important corporations. Lose! Lose! Lose! At the same time, Wall Street is struggling to recover in the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manic Market | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

...manic depressive insomniac who was in love with the guy who worked these hours before me," Karl said and he quickly turned back to he work at the grill. Just then the song "I've Got the Music in Me" blasted from the radio and Karl began to pound greasy hamburger patties on the skillet with the rhythm. "I love this song," he shouted...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: A Night in Cambridge, A Day in The Tasty | 10/29/1986 | See Source »

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