Word: lovesick
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...heard singing love songs to lure willing mates. But female crickets are not the only creatures these songs attract. Researchers reporting in Science magazine say they have found a tiny fly of the Ormia genus that can home in on a singing male as quickly as any lovesick cricket. How do they do it? With a hearing organ that works remarkably like a cricket...
...stuff is diverse. Anguished lit majors scribble attacks on Derrida. Inarticulate crammers write obscenities on nearby walls. And the simply lovesick bemoan humanity...
Overall, the play is strongly acted. Kim's impassioned portrayal of Proteus is outstanding--she contrasts well with Kuan's sappy, lovesick Valentine. Kim's scenes with Li are usually plausible, but the two actresses seem hesitant to display the physical affection called for in the script. Perhaps Li is too soft-spoken--she plays her character as a dreamy, mopey girl, one whose bold voyage to Milan seems incongruous. During her disclosure of the plan to reveal Proteus' duplicity, Li says, "Poor Proteus, thou hast entertained a fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs." This line does...
Susanna, in cahoots with the Countess (Martha Warren) launches a plot against the Count (David Kravitz) who wants Susanna and doesn't return the Countess' love as he should. Basically, Susanna wants Figaro, the Count wants Susanna and the Countess wants the Count. Throw in a case of a lovesick teenager (Cherubino), recruited to aid in the scheme by the women, and a subplot where the orphaned Figaro learns the identities of his real parents, and you get some really dangerous liaisons...
Soon, Israel's rickety barn was stuffed with salvage. One spring day, his lovesick bull crashed through the barn wall and trampled over months of careful collecting. Says Israel: "So it was goodbye cows, hello salvage." Since 1979, the firm has grown beyond Israel's wildest dreams, allowing him other expensive sidelines. He recently opened a motorcycle shop that reconditions and sells vintage Harley-Davidsons. But fan-shaped stained-glass windows and ornate heat registers remain his central passions and his righteous mission. "If the Rockefellers or the Hearsts saw a library in England they liked, they bought...