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...anything. I'd tell her to lay off the drugs some and her face would get all hard and she'd yell at me to stop preaching at her. She just seemed hungry all the time, like she'd throw herself into every trip all the way. Manic. Then she'd come down like she'd been cheated. So she'd go back up again...
...main form of large-scale decoration. Moreover, it had two advantages that fresco did not possess: a duke could change his hangings, and they warmed his drafty abode in winter. And yet the appetite for tapestries went beyond all questions of use and ornament. They were collected with manic extravagance. As the Cluny Museum's chief curator Francis Salet points out in his catalogue introduction, Philip the Good of Burgundy was such an impassioned buyer that his collection required a staff of 18 guards and varlets. In 1461, at the coronation of Louis XI, Philip gave the citizens...
...Manic Escalation. Both the wisdom and the effectiveness of this strategy are open to serious challenge. If it succeeded, it would lock the West for long years into paying for its oil high prices that might not hold up in an open market. Anyway, the oil producers for the moment show little interest in settling for any price other than the highest they can get. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran has said that a fixed price for oil would be acceptable only if the West could also guarantee fixed prices for the goods that it sells to oil producers...
Right now, the spirit in oil markets is one of manic price escalation. Producers round the world last week joined in the gargantuan increases started by the Persian Gulf nations. Nigeria and Venezuela, which supply 10% of U.S. oil imports, raised posted prices (a theoretical base figure for taxes that influences the actual selling price) to more than $14 per bbl., topping the Persian Gulf price of $11.65. Libya more than doubled its posted price to a hair-raising $18.76. Indonesia, supplier of 6% to 7% of the oil that the U.S. imports, lifted its actual selling price from...
...vise of O'Neill's passions and obsessions, but -the drama's organic life is stunted. Except for Hickey, Iceman 's characters tend to be puppets who are twitched to demonstrate the central the sis. James Earl Jones' Hickey is over wrought, a manic-morose evangelist given to fits of hysterical joviality. In a production not conspicuously endowed with strength or cohesiveness, Jones' prizefighter style makes him disconcert ingly and divisively strong, as if a born winner had stumbled into the company ofbornlosers...