Sentences with phrase «by cuckoo»

This interior space was inspired by a cuckoo clock!
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In Dinosaur Dilemma, two Hammer Bros. can be found sleeping in Bowser's Castle by Mario and Yoshi, and are woken up by their cuckoo clock as the two try to sneak out of the room.
She lives, naturally, in an insane asylum populated by a cuckoo's nest of comic misfits, including a man who can only state the obvious («A cat is, above all, a furry animal») and a woman who believes she can fly.
Eggs of warblers and weavers reveal that those from species whose nests have been infiltrated by cuckoo finches have extremely complicated markings compared with those from species whose nests have not been invaded.
Many Eurasian birds have evolved defenses against cuckoos, but cowbirds are less picky about choosing their hosts, and might threaten other species that are not parasitized by cuckoos and have no defenses.

Not exact matches

But those grim reminders of the old Soviet Union were offset by the warm Siberian sunshine, the bird - cherry bushes in full bloom, the flowering garlic, and the cuckoos singing in the trees.
«One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» by Dale Wasserman based on the novel of the same name by Ken Kesey, is a play about a group of men struggling to be free.
Even mornings can be a little cuckoo... there are PTO meetings and end - of - the - year parties to plan by committee.
If you remotely think Arsenal will still be in the title hunt by New Years Day, when we are already 6 points behind two clubs who can both score plenty and concede very few, then you are living in Cloud Cuckoo Land.
Because he rarely talks about himself on the air, his listeners probably don't know that he is an inventor (he holds a U.S. patent on a bottle / can opener); an actor (films he or his voice were in: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Paper Lion, Aunt Mary and Tiger Town); and a lyricist (I Don't Know Any Better by B.J. Thomas, for one).
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The Liberal Democrat health spokesman Norman Lamb said: «The prime minister is living in cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that more central targets will be met by hospitals deep in deficit who are already cutting jobs and services.
The eternal teenagers of politics, led by a man resembling an earnest sixthformer, they are like a vast hot - air balloon, floating dangerously close to cloud - cuckoo land.
This German cuckoo clock features a cabin framed by evergreen trees with eye - catching painted details that offer a brighter alternative to the darker traditional cuckoo clock.
We have recently discovered that the UK's cuckoos winter in the Congo rainforest, thanks to satellite tracking by the British Trust for Ornithology.
I'm fascinated by the evolutionary arms race between the cuckoo and the birds that it parasitises.
To better understand the potential role of acoustic signals in butterfly larvae integration and adoption by ant colonies, scientists compared two populations of parasitic butterflies: a predatory species that feeds on ant broods, and a cuckoo species that is fed directly by the worker ants.
The ground cuckoo makes a noise very similar to that used by pig - like peccaries to warn off predatory cats, which could be evidence of acoustic mimicry
«We are still working hard to change the broader medical profession's and general public's perception of ECT, which has struggled to shake off the tarnished image given to it by popular movies such as the 1975 film «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest»,» Professor Loo said.
Neomorphus ground - cuckoos in Central and South America seem to mimic the sounds made by the pig - like peccaries they live alongside, perhaps to ward off predators.
«Cuckoos impersonate hawks by matching their «outfits».»
Thus leaving aside the points highlighted in the introductory article by Gavin «Cuckoo Science» the following are easily identified «howlers»
The http://www.realclimate.org website, run by two of the «hockey - stick» graph's authors, said the same in a blog entitled «Cuckoo science».»
The Cuckoo's Calling, though by NO means terrible, was the weakest of the three, which is saying a lot because I enjoyed it a great deal.
Owned by former masterminds behind Sketch and Cuckoo, their delicious offering of chicken, burgers and cocktails with a laid - back atmosphere makes it the perfect place for a chilled, fun night.
Directed by Milos Forman, Flynt shows little of the inspiration that marked his best - known flicks like Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
«Lucy» doesn't make a lick more sense than «Transcendence» did — even though both feature Morgan Freeman working overtime to talk us through the proceedings — but at least «Lucy» has the good fortune to be written and directed by Luc Besson, which means that while the results may be cuckoo - bananas, they're never boring.
The Best Picture field for 1975's Academy Awards included the eventual winner One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the year's by far biggest blockbuster Jaws,
... But the cuckoo is stitched together by the heft of Fonda and Tomlin's performances and the intimacy of the writing when the show manages to take a step back and give the characters a beat for self - analysis.
The film assembled one of the studio's finest voice casts, led by Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres, gave them a ton of great gags and memorable characters (the surfer dude turtle and the «One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest» homage in the dentist's office first among them), and then grounded it in with a deep bass line of thoroughly relatable pathos.
EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Jack and The Cuckoo Clock Heart by Mathias Malzieu and Stéphane Berla Minuscule — Valley Of the Lost Ants by Thomas Szabo and Helene Giraud The Art of Happiness by Alessandro Rak
With its seven wins, La La Land surpassed the record of six awards held by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Midnight Express (1978), according to the Los Angeles Times.
It marked the first critical breakthrough for director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs, The Truth About Charlie), and two Oscars, one for the screenplay by Bo Goldman (Meet Joe Black, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and one for Best Supporting Actress for Mary Steenburgen (Hope Springs, Elf).
screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, Wolf Rilla, George Barclay, based on The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
He refined his acting skills on the TV series Streets of San Francisco (1972 - 1976) with Karl Malden, produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) directed by Milos Forman starring Jack Nicholson, and other films where he did act in, The China Syndrome (1979) with Jane Fonda, Romancing the Stone (1984) and Jewel of the Nile (1985) with Kathleen Turner.
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By Sean O'Connell Hollywoodnews.com: «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,» Milos Forman's Best Picture - winning black comedy from 1975, will receive a special anniversary release from Warner Home Video on Sept. 7, Arriving in an Ultimate Collector's Edition DVD or Blu - ray loaded with more than four hours of bonus content.
«A Personal Memoir by Augusten Burroughs» discusses how the author wrote the book, why he selected Ryan Murphy to adapt, and how he worked with the cast; «Inside Outsiders» features cast interviews on how the created their respective characters; and «Creating the Cuckoo's Nest» examines the production of the crazy Finch home.
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That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.
The Bottom Line: My favorite pick because it's more a monster movie than a disaster flick, this intriguing tale from 1962 (based on the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, who also penned THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS that spawned VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED on the big screen) begins with a meteor shower that liberally spreads killer crawling plant creatures around the globe — with everyone who has seen the celestial show going permanently blind.
10:00 pm — TCM — One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Criminal Jack Nicholson gets put into a psychiatric hospital to see if maybe he's crazy, and he ends up shaking the place up a bunch, especially the extremely strict by - the - book Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher).
Frank puts his band through their paces, but life with him is cuckoo - strange; by his standards, everything is normal, be it impromptu martial arts training or a fiery viking burial at sea.
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«One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» was set in confinement, too, and like that story, the narrative drive of «The Shawshank Redemption» - based on a story by the prolific Stephen King - is a journey of freedom, physical and psychological.
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