Word: cuckoo
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DIED. KEN KESEY, 66, author and '60s counterculture superhero; following cancer surgery; in Eugene, Ore. Kesey was a rebel pundit and a comic scribe, a longtime advocate of hallucinogens and a lifelong champion of individualism. In 1962 he published his acclaimed first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which later became an Oscar-winning film. In 1964 he traveled cross-country in a psychedelic bus with a group of hippie pals called the Merry Pranksters. The trip, immortalized by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, helped establish the antiestablishment in the public imagination. "I like...
...Countries that are unable to convert all objects into smart objects will be eligible for U.N., World Bank and wto loans. Countries that want to protect certain objects from becoming smart (say cuckoo clocks in Switzerland or statues of the Buddha in Tibet) can appeal on grounds that it may reduce tourism, but in general such unilateralism will be frowned upon and sanctions may be applied...
...filmgoer of a certain age, your image of electroshock was shaped by such movies as The Snake Pit or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In the latter, a small army of orderlies and nurses restrain Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) as he is connected to the electrodes. The treatment is agonizing because McMurphy isn't given anesthesia, which has been routine for years...
...that playwrights as talented as Bennett and Robertson must resort to such shifts in focus in order to tell the simple and compelling story of a man or woman gone mad? Countless novels, from Notes from Underground to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, depict the inner lives of deeply troubled individuals, as do untold numbers of movies. But novels and movies share a subjectivity that drama categorically lacks. Both can get inside the heads of their characters in a way that no piece of theater...
...when you've mastered the tricks of trading peer to peer, there are all sorts of hidden pitfalls. Files can take forever to download. Servers can crash or go offline before you finish. Files advertised as containing one song may hold another. Or they may contain a so-called cuckoo egg--a gotcha message posted by anti-Napster activists. Last week Napster users downloading the new Barenaked Ladies single, Pinch Me, and got a version implanted with a "Trojan horse": a spoken message from the band telling fans to buy the song instead. Worse still, P2P files may harbor...