Word: daft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anyone who has spent a night in Headwaters Grove, awakening at dawn to hear the cries of marbled murrelets, the endangered seabirds that nest in the huge trees, and to watch the great trunks take form in the lightening mist, the idea of owning such a place is daft. But, yes, if the Deal goes through, Maxxam won't own Headwaters. Won't cut it. And California will have a beautiful new tree museum...
...away with bizarre behavior, perhaps caused by something like epilepsy. She is bigger, a better runner, a forest dweller, who can sense his approach across continental divides. He tracks her for months across the distance of seasons; she flees, easily able to stay ahead, despairing, besotted. He follows, implacable, daft with love. It's not easy to make something like this catch fire and burn to the end, but Bass does...
...were, contrived a sequel, Streets of Laredo (1993). It was pale and sad because Gus McCrae, one of his heroes, was dead, and the other, Woodrow Call, was old. Then in 1995 McMurtry reached back with a thunderation called Dead Man's Walk to pick up his heroes as daft and randy 19-year-old Rangers on a misbegotten invasion of Mexican territory...
...nails his penis to a board and calls it art. Yet Bob Flanagan, masochist with a cause, might win the sympathy of any stony conservative, for he was one of the longest-lived survivors of cystic fibrosis, a lung disease that takes most of its victims in childhood. His daft wit even turned his affliction into a Mary Poppins-style ditty: "Supermasochistic Bob has cystic fibrosis/ He should've died when he was young, but he was too precocious.../ A lifetime of infection and his lungs all filled with phlegm/ The CS would have killed him if it weren...
...songs as Forever Yellow Skies and The Rebels, singer Dolores O'Riordan howls and the guitars rage. Yet O'Riordan remains a terrific crafter of melodies, and a prettiness sparkles beneath the surface of her most raucous songs. The one problem is that the lyrics are sometimes a bit daft: I'm Still Remembering pays tribute to Kurt Cobain in one couplet and, in a loopy segue, lauds John F. Kennedy in the next. Perhaps O'Riordan should watch more C-SPAN...