Word: manic
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...Heat is currently headlining their own North American tour and stopped off at Boston’s Axis club last week. The show was an exercise in pure manic energy, with singer Steve Bays howling and leaping around the stage like a pill-popping Energizer Bunny...
...seriously consider Harvard’s offer until regular admissions come through in April. Summers says that the old system “put extra pressure on students.” But it is difficult to see how compressing the four full months of careful consideration into a single manic month will ease that pressure in the least...
From his tormented neurotic in River's Edge to his manic-nerd dad in Back to the Future, the thin, plain Glover has always popped on-screen. But he is perhaps most famous for a 1987 appearance on David Letterman in which a long-haired Glover yelled, "I can kick! I can kick!" and proceeded to kick inches from Letterman's face. His reputation also springs from the fact that his role in the Back to the Future sequels was filled in by a Glover look-alike with Gloveresque prosthetics. And quite a few people heard that...
Still, the sparkle of the three etoiles was not quite enough. "Bernard was pretty much a manic depressive," says Chelminski. He once told a fellow chef he would kill himself if he lost a star. "All these exceptional beings who give you the impression of so much assurance, they are all very fragile," Loiseau's widow Dominique said on television last week. "They all have such strong moments of doubt...
...this vacuous camaraderie leaves Gazza feeling low. After the rest of the team has been tucked into bed by a 9:30 curfew, he finds solace in snooker and San Miguel. At night, his motions are usually lazy, a languor born of loneliness. But tonight Gazza is all manic energy, careening around like a banked cue ball. He has invited his father, John Gascoigne, and best mate, Jimmy Gardner?Jimmy Five Bellies to the British tabloids?to stay with him for the next three months, and they will arrive by car from Hong Kong in a few hours' time...