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...told me, ‘Man, you see me now? I’m cuckoo!’” Frankie J said. “‘I went to Harvard, and I studied too much...
...music—however inscrutable and contradictory those depths may be—many of the album’s brightest moments still feel relatively sterile compared to the implicit emotional turmoil that yielded fractured perfection like “Peacebone” and “Cuckoo Cuckoo.”This also may be why the album’s best songs are the ones that deviate from this pattern. “Bluish,” a wash of innocent echo-chamber balladry, would disappear into the labyrinth of its swirling accompaniment if not for the sheer...
...Cuckoo" was the response of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley after Blagojevich's latest news conference on Friday, the same day that Blagojevich's top defense lawyer, Ed Genson - never one to give up a fight - threw in the towel on the governor. "I have practiced law for 44 years," Genson said to reporters. "I never require a client to do what I say, but I do require clients to listen to what I say." Among other things, Genson said he wasn't being included in key decisions on whether to file suit to attempt to block the impeachment trial...
...generation or two," he says. To their credit, officials at the Oregon State Hospital had neatly numbered and catalogued each cremated patient. But for decades they kept the storeroom of canisters a secret from the outside world. Even when Milos Forman shot the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the hospital, and used several patients as his extras, the room's existence wasn't revealed...
...martini lunch, it was anxiety. (In 1956, 1 in 50 Americans was regularly taking mood-numbing tranquilizers like Miltown - a chemical blunderbuss compared with today's sleep aids and antianxiety meds.) During the '60s and '70s, an age of suspicion and Watergate, schizophrenics of the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sort captured the imagination - mental patients as paranoid heroes. Many mental institutions were emptied at the end of this period. In the '90s, after serotonin-manipulating drugs were released and so many patients were listening to Prozac, thousands of news stories suggested, incorrectly, that the problem of chronic...