Word: kooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroine of The Sterile Cuckoo is a happy little dumpling of a college freshman called Pookie, a name that holds promises of maudlin disaster. The movie fulfills them. Pookie (Liza Minnelli) is what used to be called, back in the dim and distant fifties, a kook. She does swell things like move in with her straight-arrow boy friend (Wendell Burton) while he is studying for his finals, puts tape across her mouth-'cause she's promised not to talk to him-and communicates with him by holding up signs. College is some bucolic wonderland where...
PETULIA. Set in San Francisco, Richard Lester's film covers the contemporary scene and dissects the way men and women treat each other through the cruel, comic story of the relationship, or lack of it, between a kook (Julie Christie) and a surgeon (George C. Scott) who care that they couldn't care less...
Strachey's strangest alliance was with a woman, of all people-a hoydenish little kook named Dora Carrington, described by a friend as "a tin of mixed biscuits." Carrington met him at a house party in 1915. He offended her one evening, and next morning she crept into his bedroom, intending to cut off his beard by way of revenge. Instead, she fell in love with him, and moved in to take care of him for the rest of his life. That was fine with Strachey, who later fell in love with a beau of Carrington's named...
There is another, more subtle, more insidious excuse for not worrying about Avatar's fate. "It's a bad magazine, the writing is poor, and there's that kook who thinks he's God in it." To begin with Avatar has improved immensely and personally I really like the rag. Go into the University Restaurant some afternoon when a new issue has just come out. Everyone has a copy and many a professor has been caught chuckling over its refreshing tone...
...assault left the First Lady speechless. But not the usually jovial wife of New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes, mother of eleven. "Anybody who is taking pot just because there is a war in Viet Nam is some kind of kook," shot back Mrs. Hughes, whose first husband died in World...