Word: daft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suspicious and possibly vengeful Cordelia is an even more unsettling companion than the normally daft one. Richard feels guilty for wanting to leave his wife and also for worrying about what his future would be like without her money: " ... all cafes, canteens, pubs, pavements, bus shelters, bus queues, buses...
...bravura turn that could sap any star's strength. In the middle of a performance toward the end of the run, Day-Lewis left the stage and did not return. The theater pages were full of rumors that he had seen his father as the ghost and was driven daft. "I have no bad feelings about my father, my father's ghost, the ghost of Hamlet, Hamlet, Shakespeare, Richard Eyre or the National Theatre. But I am continually encouraged to have bad feelings by those who want to perpetuate this idea because, in a moment of exhaustion, I left...
...after all, best known for the zippy romance Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (which became a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino) and the funny-poignant Lips Together, Teeth Apart (which is now playing in Los Angeles). Among his dozens of plays are daft farces (The Ritz, Bad Habits), an Emmy-winning TV play (Andre's Mother) and a clever sitcom (Mama Malone), but nothing so eloquent, capacious and true as A Perfect Ganesh...
...grace and thrills come on the field between April and October. All the other stuff was on display at the owners' winter meetings in Louisville, Kentucky, where baseball's barons went on a daft pre-Christmas shopping spree for talent -- including $43 million for six years of outfielder Barry Bonds' services -- while moaning they were near bankruptcy...
...tired trappings of the Bush years: the daft yet terrifyingly archconservative vice president, Millie the acclaimed canine auteur, the Kennebunkport/Houston hometown ambiguity, the Machiavellian figure of James baker ever hovering in the background, horseshoes and deep-sea fishing, Iraq...