Word: gaga
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...grandchildren, reaching a final resting place in the San Francisco pad of a hippy granddaughter. Eva finds in the girl an echo of her own past, and she makes some inarticulate efforts to pass on her heritage. But as played by Lila Kedrova, the old woman mostly seems merely gaga. It is sometimes hard to determine whether her grimaces are meant to convey joy or pain or simply the frustration of an actress trying to find a part that no one quite bothered to write out for her. The doughty trouper Melvyn Douglas, playing her husband, seems similarly afflicted. Both...
...have had Eden as its model, as a place at once disciplined and open-ended. That is the way the rich would have nature: apparently free yet under the thumb. They would have their animals the same way, which is why they are often attended by clawless panthers and gaga-looking bears...
...editors or her own sense of her audience mar some of the pieces in Off Center. The McCall's article on the Moonies, for instance, opens with a paragraph as purple and swollen as a bad bruise. Sometimes Harrison's inspired chat turns to chaff--she goes completely gaga over Dick Cavett in a profile piece that is all flutter and giggles, just like the show. Occasionally we get the feeling that she is using words and criticisms for the sheer joy of being liberated, free to say what she wants...
...Maugham had defined the fine line between love and suffering. Senility blurred it. He ranted, failed to recognize friends and reverted to infantile toilet habits. There were occasional good days. On one, a week after a visit with the aging Churchill, he observed, "If you think I'm gaga, you should see Winston...
...penthouse proletariat." Never one for subtlety, James J. Kilpatrick says he "sees no reason on God's green earth for taking the taxpayer's money in order to nuture those happy hotdogs of the intellectual left who would love to get on the air and read their gaga poems at public expense." The commission characterizes public broadcasting as an "absolutely indespensable tool for our people and our democracy," adding the United States should be willing to spend five dollars a year per person to finance a system equivalent to the British Broadcasting Company or Japan...