The unforgettable war between the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the boisterous, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her.
By the time of his sudden death at age 50 in 2009, Michael Jackson was known less for his music than for his erratic behavior, wild spending, and many plastic surgeries.
Adjective
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
Set in and around a dystopian London fractious with violence and warring nationalistic sects, Children of Men follows the unexpected discovery of a lone pregnant woman.
In Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson's humor is snappy and her children, though messy and obstreperous, seem never to inspire in her anything worse than a fond exasperation.
Children are quite a bit like cats. No matter how much you spend on gifts for them, inevitably it is the box that seems to provide the most raucous and satisfying entertainment for them.