Word: cuckooed
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...awkward, it's automatically funny. Just the idea of love is embarrassing to me. It's the equivalent of singing in the street." In 1999 Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields released 69 Love Songs, a spectacular three-CD, genre-spanning survey that included titles like Absolutely Cuckoo and (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy. The Magnetic Fields' new album, I (all the songs begin with the word or letter I), out May 4, has 14 more love songs that veer between tragically camp earnestness and deep romantic cynicism. On I Don't Believe You, Merritt sings...
...production of this difficult play is mostly smooth. The shifts in time are effected unobtrusively via a cuckoo clock and a brief change of lighting, designed by Ted T. Ashley ’06. Set changes are somewhat more obtrusive, due to the clunky three-piece stage, but fortunately rare. Not every joke has time to seep through, and some of the more dazzling effects (such as the large sections of limerick dialogues) are de-emphasized in favor of naturalistic delivery. However, much of the humor—particularly the political humor—proves successful, as when Carr innocently...
...boom. In the end, of course, bipolar disorder is no joke. Suzanne goes into reverse, into the lethal subtraction of depression--first happiness goes, then feeling of any kind. When a doctor treats her with an unsuitable new prescription, she ends up in a mental hospital, the usual cuckoo's nest of chain smokers and emotional skulduggery. There's some light at the end of the tunnel, but the point of this book is not the destination. It's the haywire road Suzanne takes as she drives herself crazy. Fisher can drive you crazy too. But when she pulls...
...famously turned down some great film roles. Why did you pass on Jack Nicholson's part in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...
...satisfied with progress? With acceptance? Beats hell out of me why you want to drag that dead cat around' ... Because see what happens? My whole party is now trying to do a constitutional amendment. My God! I can't believe it. I thought all you right-wing cuckoo pals of mine were all about states' rights...