Word: daft
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Rarely have cast and characters seemed so ideally matched from top to bottom. Jonathan Moore, looking like a foppish John Belushi, is Mr. Guppy, the ambitious law clerk who makes a hilariously premature proposal of marriage to Esther. Sylvia Coleridge is Miss Flite, the daft old regular at Chancery, who collapses one day and tingles with joy at being carried home by "the principals in Jarndyce and Jarndyce." Each takes part in what Vladimir Nabokov described as Dickens' "magic democracy," where even the tiniest characters have a vivid afterlife. This Bleak House, like the London fog of old, is hard...
...Pointillists, Senn nevertheless acquired a glistening Beach of the Vignasse by Henri-Edmond Cross. He largely neglected the Fauves, except for a few Paris scenes by Albert Marquet and one lively painting by André Derain, Bougival, that Senn's father-in-law called the "most daft and most ugly" thing the younger man had ever bought. As for Henri Matisse, there are only two of his pieces in the show. One is an early work, Still Life with Pitcher; the other, Street in the Midi, was not acquired by Olivier Senn but by his son Edouard...
...books. When she finally relented and said I could call her mother, she matter-of-factly told me to do so before the following Wednesday. "She gets the chemo on Wednesday, and once the chemo sets in"--Coulter began to laugh--"for the first week, she gets a little daft from the chemo ... Whenever I call them [her parents], it rings. It rings. It rings. The phone picks up. 'Wait a minute. I have to take my hearing aid out.' 'Find the phone that works.' It's pandemonium calling old people!" Coulter often speaks with great affection for her parents...
Most of “Human After All,” Daft Punk’s third LP, is, sadly and surprisingly, as stupid, repetitive, and boring as a techno album can be. And they can be pretty stupid, repetitive, and boring. I say “most of” because there are a few spots that would have fit among the middle-to-low-end tracks on one of their previous CDs, which brought the pair of Parisian DJs much-deserved fame and acclaim...
...Daft Punk members Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter once seemed like robotic (or at least android) supermen. Their debut, “Homework,” was a catchy disc that mainly hewed to dance-techno conventions. “Discovery” was a daring work that convinced many a listener (myself included) that electronic music could be interesting, catchy and danceable—all at the same time...