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...directors are kids at heart, and the Warner aces (Jones, Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett) were brilliant kids, all in their 20s or early 30s, when they created Porky, Daffy and Bugs. Freleng was the anchor, making crisp vaudeville comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...
...brain, called the subgenual prefrontal cortex, plays an important role in the control of emotions. But Drevets, who has since moved to the University of Pittsburgh, discovered that it could also be the trigger point for both bouts of paralyzing sadness and the wildly euphoric highs of manic depression. "This area of the brain may act as a set of brakes for emotional responses," he explains. "When it does not function properly, abnormal swings in mood may occur...
NATURE OF DENOUEMENT Nasty. She got a restraining order, claiming he hit her and was a manic depressive...
...practices ignores the overriding desire of many of those people to escape from the grinding poverty of subsistence farming. Greider also slips when he tries to blame multinational corporations and international financiers--the favorite punching bags of populists--for the very events the book's subtitle ascribes to "the manic logic of global capitalism...
Clark ended our chat with a friendly smile and twinkling eye. He picked up the Starbucks coffee cup from the table--"Coffee is very important in writing; you have to reach a manic state...