"He combined Old World mysticism and New World craziness," said the poet Janine Vega.
"It's the consequence of craziness," said Nilda Garcia, the mother of Osmani Segura.
"It's craziness," said Mr. Coffman, 45, who says he eats fair food every day but who appears surprisingly trim.
ReprintsThe craziness, say brokers, is reminiscent of the internet bubble, when stocks soared to great heights only to come crashing back down months later.
"This is craziness," said Representative John Linder, a Georgia Republican who is the ranking minority member of a House panel on welfare policy.
"This makes the remote possibility of American prosecution by the court trump every other definition of national interest -- it is fixation to the point of craziness," said Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch.
"It clearly opens up the potential for chaos and craziness," said David Schultz, a professor at Hamline University in St . Paul who has tossed out the syllabus for an election-law course he is teaching this semester, just as he did in the never-ending presidential contest in 2000.
"We are all being carried along on this wave of craziness," said Fox-Pitt.
Total craziness," said George Warner, 48, of Brea, who along with his wife, Yolanda, was one of the first people in line outside of Honda Center before the doors opened.
Sheer, unadulterated human joy and craziness," said England fan John Goodwin, 60, who is in Brazil for his sixth World Cup.
