Word: coos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds like something from a screwball comedy: two sweethearts coo at each other by night and then turn around and try to demolish each other by day. But that's the life of Mary Matalin, George Bush's campaign field director, and James Carville, Bill Clinton's chief strategist. The two are in love, and at war, at the same time...
...Marred Bliss," by Mark O'Donnell, portrays a couple about to be trapped in the institution of marriage. The script contains an innovative comedic twist: it is composed entirely of Freudian slips. The prissy Jane (Jane Sperling) and her luggish fiancee Dink (Ron Weiner) coo at each other about becoming "moan and woof" and their upcoming "hiney-moon" in "A Frantic City." Jane must reject her "old toy-friend" Jerry, played by the slouching, smooth-talking Brent Johnstone, as must Dink shun the advances of Pam Shores' provocative Alas, before the couple can properly appreciate "encaged" life...
Caring for such infants is frustrating. "You don't do things that come naturally," notes Diane Carleson, a foster mother in San Mateo, Calif. "The more you bounce them and coo at them, the more they arch their backs to get away. Their poor mothers want so badly to make contact, yet they are headed for rejection unless they learn how not to overstimulate them...
...yuppie missals Success! and Power!, is the sort called a roman a clef by the French and "serving up something for the shopgirls" by the English. There is a patronizing quality to the central notion, which is that the reader is a lowbrow who will have naughty fun -- "coo, oi didn't know that about 'er" -- guessing which real-life celebrities are behaving scandalously behind aliases and sketchy disguises...