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...that the native of Calgary carries a U.S. green card and has a home in Los Angeles. He is credited with -- or blamed for -- masterminding a propaganda campaign against the exiled President that was allegedly responsible, at least in part, for the recent CIA charges that Aristide is a manic depressive. Aristide calls such allegations "garbage." His sympathizers in Miami claim Garrison is the CIA's designated handler for Cedras. Garrison says he is not CIA, but he claims to have longstanding contacts within both the Central and Defense Intelligence Agencies. He says that in 1970 he worked "with...
...manic Grover who had without doubt the biggest student following...
...Domingo, he will shut down his professional life for a month or so next May while he follows the World Cup soccer competition with a manic intensity. Later, at the Los Angeles finals, both men will participate in another spectacular supertenor superbowl. At a million a man, it's a sweet way to sing for your supper. And get breakfast...
Those sorts of literal endorsements tend to make us cringe nowadays, whether at the primitivism, or the low state to which some public person has been reduced (George McGovern for Pritikin Longevity Centers), or the intimacy of real-life typecasting (manic-depressive Patty Duke touting a chain of for- profit psychiatric hospitals). Because consumers are too skeptical to put much stock in guarantees delivered by hired celebrities, and because major stars find it demeaning to recommend any product explicitly, mainstream celebritocentric advertising has become a subtle, weirdly stylized genre. Michael Jackson and Madonna don't do much more than appear...
However, DeLong says her life took a sudden turn in 1986 when she was diagnosed as manic depressive and began to suffer cycles of hypo mania and severe depression...