Word: cuckoos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 felt cuckoo...
TIME: What do you mean when you say cuckoo...
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...