Word: couched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Regarding his furniture:"There is the 'couch of fertility', which is so named because it was bought from people in Adams who got it from a woman who had to leave after she got pregnant...
...couch this dilemma wittily, as screenwriter Martin Sherman does, but you can't really evade its darker implications. Director Waris Hussein doesn't try. His style is objective without being cool or repressed in the all-too- common English manner. He avoids playing for big laughs the mostly awful social situations in which his characters find themselves. Even a drunk scene between Plowright and Moreau is low-keyed. It is very agreeable to discover a movie in which everything is not foreshadowed, underlined, commented upon. In other words, The Summer House is disciplined in the way that British theatrical productions...
...young music fan was lying happily on his couch, listening to Hand on the Torch, the new CD by US 3, when he drifted into a dream about the late jazz drummer Art Blakey, leader of the influential Jazz Messengers...
...about death. During both my depressions, I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page." He consulted a Dr. Morse in 1962: "What made him unique among psychiatrists I have known is that he stretched out on his couch and the patient sat in the chair. Morse would stare at the ceiling as he listened to my story. Occasionally, he would nod his head." Morse asked Buchwald: "Have you forgiven your father for putting you in all those homes?" Buchwald: "Of course. He couldn't help it." Pause. "Okay, so maybe...
Skeptical? So was Crichton. "Sometimes I thought, 'You've been in California too long, and you've gone from a perfectly O.K. doctor to a guy who lies on a couch while somebody puts crystals on him and you actually think it means something, but it's nothing but a lot of hippie-dippy-airy-fairy baloney. New Age Garbage, Aquarian Abracadabra, Karmic Crap. Get out now, Michael, before you start to believe this stuff.' But the thing is, I was having a really interesting time...