Word: manically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gutsy actors and actresses" for "The Proposition--a topical satirical review." Six months later and 80 degrees hotter, the director's call for those with intelligence and guts is understandable. Those rare qualities in its actors make The Proposition's skits, especially improvised ones, funny enough to make manic the most depressed...
...also prodigal, self-indulgent, and histrionic. The actual coronation of the historical Richard was unprecedented in pomp and splendor and set the pace for the king's 22-year reign. As Shakespeare limns him, Richard is, further, an ideal case study of what modern psychiatry knows as a manic-depressive...
SCUBA DUBA. Bruce Jay Friedman's tense comedy makes a mockery of the sacred cows and shibboleths of an illiberal liberal. Jerry Orbach is the manic hero run amuck on a Riviera holiday...
Spurred largely by fears of racial violence, Americans are engaged in a manic internal arms race. "There are more guns in Los Angeles," said a Negro leader, "than in Saigon"?at least 3,000,000. In Massachusetts, 1,100 gun dealers last year sold enough arms to equip an army of 56,000. Chicago's Blackstone Rangers, a 1,000-member black gang, are said to have 1,200 handguns among them...
...pandemoniously eccentric household. The grotesque English public school system did little for him except inspire the literary decapitation, in Eminent Victorians, of Dr. Thomas Arnold, the spartan Christian of Rugby. By the time Lytton reached Cambridge in 1899, he was a distinct oddity-a gangly, shrill-voiced, germ-ridden, manic-depressive esthete, caustic as lye except when caught in the eternally adolescent marshmallow bogs of homosexual passion. "Duncan Grant is the full moon of heaven," he wrote to Maynard Keynes, who was one of his earliest friends and confidants. In fact, Keynes was something more. Holroyd discloses that like Strachey...