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...transience. The subject of love crops up repeatedly in the book's 60 lyrics, but the Boss Cupid of the title is not the chubby winged cherub of popular lore. He is something of a hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter on the ground." Pleasure is the other side of loss. In "American Boy" Gunn writes, "Expertly you know how to maintain me/At the exact degree/of hunger without starving. We produce/ What warmth...
There's no lack of crazy folks on TV. As in Stark Raving Mad, as in "cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs," as in, that Dharma...
...that from its gloomy architecture--outside Seville. I had tubes running into my lungs and stomach, which I would have torn out if the attendants had not bundled me into a straitjacket. (That part was real; under intensive care, I was still intubated, and the tubes were driving me cuckoo...
Students who barely remember the Gulf War can sing along with the ditty for Flintstone Kids vitamins--"Ten thousand strong...and growing"--and still go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs...
Lewinsky: I kind of think of a sort of cuckoo clock and--I don't know why this image [comes to mind]--a sort of a duck that comes down at 12 noon whose head spins around and sticks its tongue in and out and flails its arms...