Word: cuckooed
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...girl on the brink of puberty, in whose mind daydreams and overheard dalliances fatally mingle. Rendell sketches a close-knit, gossipy group of old women in The Convolvulus Clock. One of them impulsively steals an artist-designed timepiece. Guilt and fear of disapproval from her friends slowly drive her cuckoo. Father's Day presents a possessive father gripped by an unfounded and ultimately lunatic fear of losing his children through divorce...
...desire to take revenge on some threatening situation, if not the one that might have been uppermost in people's minds. Fictional heroes of the period may have offered similar distractions, functioning as little "bombs" in their own right. McMurphy of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Yossarian of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 were at war with the world, and both nuked the societies that sought to contain them. One took on the scientists, the other the military: a one-two punch for the common man. Perhaps these explosions were not diversions after...
...single mother. She helps with homework, reads bedtime stories and spends endless hours chauffeuring her three kids, ages 13, 10 and 6. But she does acknowledge certain aberrations. In her current act, the comedian jokes that one of the videos they all watch together is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. "Against that backdrop," she says, "Mom looks pretty good...
...played out on the front pages of the nation's newspapers last week, the German Language Council was organizing a contest to find the most beautiful German word. More than 20,000 entries flooded in, including such tongue twisters as Erdbeermund (strawberry mouth), meaning voluptuous lips, and Wolkenkuckucksheim (cloud-cuckoo-land). Another entry read: Liebe (love). But when it comes to grammar and spelling, perhaps the loveliest word of all is einfach: simple...
...voice of Bart Simpson, brings her one-woman show, My Life as a 10 Year Old Boy, to the Fringe. And Guy Masterton, who directed last year's hit Twelve Angry Men with a cast of comics, is back this year casting comics in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...