Word: monomanias
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...turn the 80s lawyer into a compassionate human being. In The Doctor, it took a bout with cancer to cure the 80s doctor of his own chronic self-absorption. In Hook, it took a trip to Never-Never Land to cure the 80s corporate raider of his careerist monomania. In Life Stinks, the 80s millionaire didn't know what he had until he literally lost everything...
...legged men, aged 50-60, needed for study of monomania. Seafaring experience an added plus. Pays $250,000 for three-year voyage...
...conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness, the intriguing lunatic gesture? Eisenman was the man for the job. "I get weepy that O.S.U. took this risk," he says. "It wasn't Harvard or Yale or Princeton. It's a great thing about America that people in Columbus, Ohio, are building this crazy building...
Reagan's foreign policy has been distinguished by an obsession with opposing communism--and anything that vaguely resembles it--whenever and wherever possible. That monomania was ostensibly motivated by a concern for democracy, but if so the President, like Ahab, was led astray by his obsession. The confidence that he and his advisors had in their own ends led them to means that have subverted our country's democratic institutions...
...what ya got, it's what ya do with it. Rob the journalist is merely an extension of Moore's part in 10, less smutty and more family-minded. In face after the lesson learned in 10, children are the logical next step for middle-aged male monomania...