Word: spooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Becky sat in the corner chewing her nails. If Tom takes the car, why don't you ride to the dentist tomorrow? asked Myrtle. It's fifteen miles, said Becky. Don't bend the spoons! Myrtle told her harshly. Eagle Star can take you thirty miles, easy, she said. Becky straightened the spoon. How far to Vegas, asked Rick. A ways, said Myrtle. Becky laughed...
Sunshine might just as well try tunneling out of Sing Sing with a soup spoon. Every avenue of Waters' psyche ends up against a wall, a towering edifice whose bricks have been mixed from the clay of emotional trauma, vocational frustration and, apparently, brain damage. Absent fathers, smothering mothers, sadistic schoolmasters, insistent fans and faithless spouses: "All in all you were all just bricks in the wall...
...Canada, dozens of artists doodle away. None produces characters so round or squeaky-cute as Disney's or as bawdy and animalistic as Bakshi's. Instead they often depict very real people in not-so-real situations. The best of these is Why Me?, the story of Nesbitt Spoon, an average CPA-type who learns from his doctor that he has only a short time to live--five minutes (and counting). Understandably, Mr. Spoon panics, and his creators have scripted their story so well that it matches perfectly the stages of impending death as described in Bob Fosse...
...TIME poor Mr. Spoon leaves his doctor's office to "enjoy" his last 27 seconds, he has passed through each stage with marvelous histrionics. In the process of denying the inevitable, he wonders why his doctor cannot freeze him until they discover his cure. "Freeze me!" he shouts, running to the refrigerator for an ice tray, then lying on the floor and dumping the cubes on himself. "Put me under a microscope!" he begs, then resignedly laments, "I could've played piano like Picasso...