It often gives rise to a surreal quality that appears menacing: "And what use am I, / half‑witted, unpicked, flaked / out, half a leg, a spewing mouth, brittle hair, / scooped-out heart crazed on the floor, / racked with side effects?" Mingling English, a "mongrel and magpie" Scots, and Orcadian, Harry Giles's Tonguit (Freight, £8.99) begins with a bold ars poetica.
Dennis the actor specialised in chaotic, drug-crazed, out-of-control roles, but as a director he was always disciplined, always in control.
They were so crazed and so far out and so difficult to reason with — to the point of being bizarre.
What's even more astonishing (for adults anyway) is that Minecraft has none of the CGI faux-realism of the blockbuster computer games marketed by Electronic Arts et al. Players are not compelled to act out the crazed, violent, misogynistic scripts dreamed up for them by programmers working for multimedia conglomerates.
This actor's skills -- for precision and understatement, and for unexpectedly allowing a gleeful, almost crazed energy to burst out in otherwise somber circumstances -- are impressively evident, but the movie is so small and emotionally constricted that it gives him too little room to explore his range.
His skills -- for precision and understatement, and for unexpectedly allowing a gleeful, almost crazed energy to burst out in otherwise somber circumstances -- are impressively evident, but the movie is so small and emotionally constricted that it gives him too little room to explore his range.
Her face is impassive and determined, but there is something crazed about her expression; she seems out of "Jane Eyre".
Seeing them live is like watching three-to-five crazed gibbons spinning out of control on the edge of a towering precipice, if that were a rock and roll band who play funny songs that sound like the Ramones.
As usual, Bin Laden's vow was overblown -- but, as it turned out, not entirely crazed.
"They'll go out with a pan and get some speck, and some people will get crazed by it.
And the plant, crazed by its proximity to rich familiar soil, tried repeatedly to Leap out of her.
