If you describe someone's behaviour as maniacal, you mean that it is extreme, violent, or very determined, as if the person were insane. adj. (disapproval) He was almost maniacal in his pursuit of sporting records..., She is hunched forward over the wheel with a maniacal expression.
It was his way of telling his friend he knew he was dying. It was his way of saying good-bye to him. In May of this year Gary Cooper, 60, died of cancer. Hemingway was too ill to attend the funeral, although he was an honorary pallbearer. Less than two months later, 62-year-old Papa, despondent and depressed by Coop's death, shot and killed himself.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. â Alice Cooper guitarist Dick Wagner died Wednesday of respiratory failure at Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Medical Center. The guitarist, who also played on seminal recordings by Lou Reed, Peter Gabriel and Kiss, moved to Arizona in 2004 and had been living in Fountain Hills. He was 71.