Word: wacko
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This movie disregards so many rules of balance and sensibility that it incidentally winds up being innovative. Zucker et al create a spiffy, whimsical New York ghost community for Sam to dwell in, complete with a supernatural subway wacko...
...answer is that readers and viewers are going to conclude, not unreasonably, that the same wacko standards are infecting the rest of the paper or magazine or broadcast...
...thing is that he never stopped being a Sikh, and he remains full of admiration for the social reformers who founded the religion: "These guys were, like, wacko. They just appeared out of nowhere and were talking about justice and equality. Treat women equally, serve the poor, defend your rights. It fits the social and revolutionary agenda of the American republic to a tee." He shrugs. "Except that we wear beards and turbans...
...enough I'll only put up with extremely conservative players and a wacko coach if they are extremely conservative winning players and a wacko winning coach...
Except by Juzo Itami, a filmmaker to whom obsession is character, the source of everything that is interesting and wacko in human behavior. In last year's Tampopo he genially satirized the spiritual contortions people will undergo when gripped by a fervor for haute cuisine. In A Taxing Woman his subjects are relentless greed and implacable righteousness, and his mood is, appropriately, much darker...