Word: crazier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ever suspected that psychiatrists might be crazier than the patients they treat, then Beyond Therapy will provide you with plenty of ammunition. This jab at relationships in the 1970s succeeds in ridiculing many of the facades that men and women erect in their dealings, with each other, and it gleefully satirizes the practice of psychotherapy, revealing that the advice which "troubled" patients accept without question often comes from people whose own personal problems make their judgment suspect...
...sudden segue: "They shot my father, you know, some people that were going to rob us, and he died in my arms. My brothers got out of it then; they were scared. I was too, but it kind of made me a little crazier at the time. I used a gun more quickly; I wasn't as slow to think it out. I'd just react, which is the way you got to be in this business, you know what I mean?" The stare is direct. "That's one reason I'm getting out, because I've got my kids...
...rhetorical excesses of ambition -- people saying they would slit their wrists, eat excrement or give up an intimate body part to achieve some goal -- and render them literally. His hustlers from the fringe of the movie business (Joseph Ragno and Bruce Adler) are more than a little crazy. Even crazier is the fact that their self- abasement might make them as rich as they think. The production hit a long dead spot in the second act, where Julianne Moore could not find much real in the underwritten role of a rock star...
...ways that seem utterly new and unpredictable. Friends in the Country sends a couple out to a dinner party and deposits them in a sudden fog at what is almost certainly the wrong house, an isolated, spooky Victorian monstrosity; from then on, the mystery evolves into deciding who is crazier, the hosts or the uninvited guests. In the Act is a wickedly funny send-up of android sci-fi, featuring a voluptuous male-fantasy robot (named, naturally, Dolly) who is much nicer than any of the humans around her. In the title story, an actress in a grade-B theatrical...
...transformation in the lives of my contemporaries was far more subtle. Reagan's desire (apart from that of some his crazier compatriots) was foremost to rid the country of its malaise, and to dispel what he felt was a national gloom. He mentioned this proudly only last week in his farewell address. In some sense, he has surely succeeded in restoring hope and confidence, for the economic recovery of the last several years would never have succeeded without the faith of investors...