Word: moonstruck
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...wisdom ("Things that never had names before now are easily described. It makes conversation easy") like an old-time pharmacist handing out a Bromo. Or just his presence: decked out in cowboy duds ("They sell a lot of these around here, but I never see anybody else wearing them"), moonstruck and heartfelt, with knowing eyes and open face and sloping, sculpted jaw. Gregory Peck dosed out on lithium. He sure gives you pause. Then he makes you laugh...
Neophyte entertainers seem drawn to the machines. "The teenagers love singing Billy Joel and Bette Midler tunes," says Musician Irene Regal, who with Husband Mike takes a Starmaker brand karaoke along to gigs at New York bar mitzvahs and parties. Properly lubricated, adults like to giggle through a moonstruck verse or two of a ballad. "It's the only way to go," says Cathy Ruggieri, 40, a hair stylist in Stony Brook, N.Y., who uses her $600 model at home and at her salon. "It makes you sound so good. I wasn't that outgoing before...
Garrison Keillor is the somewhat moonstruck and lately much celebrated rustic whimsyfier whose monologues from Lake Woebegon, Minn., embellish Public Radio's Saturday evening country-music broadcasts. The first response of an uninitiated listener is likely to be, "That fellow is being funny," and the second, uttered with reproach, "No, that fellow is being serious...
...matrimonial chase by a haughty heiress named Melinda, played in an impish comic vein by Laura Esterman. Bumpkins, worldlings, gulls and wits populate the evening. Toward the end of the play, it becomes evident that Plume is not a womanizing gourmand, as he pretends to the world, but a moonstruck child of sentiment who has found in the chaste but frolicsome Silvia his true heart's love. -T.E.K...
This play is moonstruck, magical and mythic. This production hints at these qualities but never quite lends them a fairyland shimmer and substance. Shakespeare's rich fund of vernal imagery all but makes up the deficit. If no real bird song lilts in a bosky dell, the playwright's words linger in the air like ineffable music. Shakespeare seems to extol a gentle harmony in nature, which he feels that gods, kings, lovers and men of common clay would do well to emulate. A shrewd judge of audiences, he sows discord to whet the appetite for concord...