Word: moonstruck
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They march on their soles up Main Street: white stripes, moonstruck eyes' red fire under the chalk-dry and spar spire of the Trinitarian Church...
...Ozuki airstrip for assignment to a suicide mission. For the 16-year-old local Tabe High School girls, whose part in the war had been to wash down the planes, it was the end of an idyllic spring with the young second lieutenants. As one of the moonstruck maintenance girls remembered, when the squadron got its orders, "We felt like the wives of samurai sent off to battle in old Japan...
...even these two were a little too forced and stiff, and that was the problem for most of the other actors, too. Thomas King, playing Rosita's sweetheart Cocoliche, was appropriately moonstruck. Buddy Mear, as Currito, her rejected lover, and Chris Simmons, as her father, were simply wooden, and the scenes they were in never quite came...
Leonard Radcliffe, the novel's hero, is a frail, foul, moonstruck young man, the son of a troubled aristocrat who has taken a job as caretaker of his decaying family's decaying mansion. From his childhood it has been clear that Leonard is brilliant and in some way blighted. For several chapters, the best of the book, it seems that Storey intends to revive that abandoned form, the psychological novel. His dry, astringent description of Leonard's decline into adulthood is drawn from that curious middle ground between detachment and involvement that Dostoevsky used...
...present target date of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA's budget has already rocketed from $117 million in 1958 to $3.7 billion this year. With the costs mounting inexorably, and with memories of Sputnik I receding, some Americans have come to take a less moonstruck look at NASA and the space race...