Word: moonstruck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moon Pilot. Walt Disney has produced a funny farce of errors about a moonstruck astronut who almost wrecks the U.S. missile program...
Moon Pilot. Walt Disney has produced the first farce about the space race: a cosmedy of errors about a moonstruck astronut who wrecks the U.S. missile program...
...moonstruck liar in a life of writing is hardly enough. The rest of what Author Barnes has written offers little but annoying, calculated imprecisions ("her wide distilling mouth") and somber oboe passages. "No, I don't feel horror," someone says. "Horror must include conflict, and I have none; I am alien to life, I am lost in still water." So, most of the time, is Author Barnes. And even Nightwood suffers from that most irritating offense of difficult writing-the mysterioso effect that hides no mystery, the locked box with nothing...
...unveiled a machine that looked like a badly made cast-iron bird cage. The contraption gave an enormous heave and one of the wires stabbed at a piece of paper. It suddenly dawned on King that "that poor old chowder-head had - all by himself up here in this moonstruck eyrie - reinvented the typewriter...