Word: mania
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...modes of history. In Clio and the Doctors: Psycho History Quanto-History, and History (University of Chicago Press) he cites the depths of the problem he and some other older historians see: The historical sense in modern populations is feeble or nonexistent, as Ortega pointed out, even though the mania for keeping records, building archives, and celebrating trivial anniversaries is rampant. Indeed it is probably the decline of a true sense of history that encourages those pseudo-historical manifestations...
...have to be there to sense the mania connected with the Oscars. Television has cooled us off so much that we forget that there is something going on, live when we watch the Awards. Three thousand people are sitting on tacks, and it's not because they're worried about prestige--they're worried about their lives, their salaries, their rank in the Hollywood hierarchy. The winner of the Best Picture of the Year award is likely to double, maybe triple its gross profits in the months following the show. A Best Actor can ask for a half-million dollars...
...smudged not only in their songs but throughout. Janice Cuddy (God) and Debbie Smigel (Jenny Novocane) are both excellent; Cuddy's "Power to Persuade" is belted out with high skill. Nancy Raffman brings a sharper edge to her role than most others in the cast and her kind of mania is just what an actor of actress needs to bring so this show...
ORIGINALLY A SPOOF on the teen-age mania over Elvis Presley, Bye-Bye Birdie--revived in 1974--is simply sexism put to music...
...threatened with quick extinction by murderous closet Nazis, and finally pushed under the wheels of an oncoming train, it becomes hard to believe that it is only the romance of investigative reporting that is driving him drearily on. In comparison to Voight's unswerving dedication, Beatty's mania seems just about as workaday as a deskman collecting box scores from the local high schools...