Word: moonstruck
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...before he will let them accept. But what trips He Ran All the Way well before it has run its length is a far-fetched romantic gimmick. It asks the moviegoer to believe that the girl, devoted to her parents and young brother (Bobby Hyatt), is lonely, frustrated and moonstruck enough to plan on running off with the criminal whom she has known only during the day or so he has spent terrorizing her family...
...passage which so fascinated Columnist H. I. Phillips that he wrote a moonstruck parody. Excerpts...
...with a "revolutionary" mind. Genius or not, he is deceitful, lazy, lousy, and hardly knows up from down. His cardinal urges are sexual, although he doesn't begin to understand why. Pregnancy, everyone believes, is a matter of solitary female ritual, magic; the child is a fruit of moonstruck female blood. "There was not much to feed a man's ego," Novelist Fisher explains...
...truth seemed to be that the Nazis -while suppressing resisters-had courted Paris as a moonstruck lout courts a handsome woman. Paris had smiled grimly and waited her chance to kick the lout in the derriere. Last week...
...kids have begun to read novels and spout homilies to their parents. Papa (Henry Travers) and his crony (Hume Cronyn) are detective-story fans who get together every night after supper to trade amiable schemes for murdering each other. And daughter (Teresa Wright) is at the moonstruck age when she cannot bear the family's dullness a moment longer...