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...suit, drawn by Kane), but mines its main humor from the Joker's ribald misanthropy ("This town needs an enema"). Batman's style is both daunting and lurching; it has trouble deciding which of its antagonists should set the tone. It can be as manic as the Joker, straining to hear the applause of outrage; it can be as implosive as Batman-Bruce, who seems crushed by the burden of his schizoid eminence. This tension nearly exhausts the viewer and the film...
...life, in 1987, Levi was in the headlines again, for having leaped down the stairwell of the apartment house where he had lived since birth. Whether this despairing act occurred because the scars of Auschwitz were too terrible to endure or whether Levi suffered from manic- depressive syndrome, nobody knows. He writes here, concerning two German poets who committed suicide, that "the obscurity of their poetry ((is)) a pre-suicide, a not-wanting-to-be"; and about his own writing, by contrast, that "I have an acute need for clarity and rationality." There are no further clues here...
Exams begin today. Just another manic Monday. Wish it were Sunday, and I was sitting on the shores of Lake Quinsigamond as boats pass...
...husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that her manic-depressive episodes, which she now controls with lithium, could have a genetic component, she began a search for her biological parents. She returned to the small Jewish orphanage, with its stacks of cribs and bunk beds ("My competitiveness comes from having had to scream the loudest for attention"), and managed...
Their next project, Airplane!, took six years to get to the screen. Every studio rejected their idea for the manic, offbeat satire of everything from film tradition to religion to drug abuse. But the old rags-to-riches fable came true for the team when Paramount finally picked up the film and it became a smash...