A quick, ascending keyboard glissando, played pianissimo, frames the score, and a falling major third, repeated over and over by a single flute, for example, evokes a cuckoo clock, around which Feldman wove gentle, continuously shifting harmonies.
The mountains For centuries the Swiss Alps have been a destination for skiing and spa-ing, but gone are the days when a mountain holiday meant stomping around beneath cuckoo clocks and dried flower arrangements.
"Everything is really cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs around here," she trills about the promotion that places her at the helm of a publication Hearst spent $180 million on four months ago.
News of Mac's cuckoo accusation against Nimitz got around quickly.
"I cannot emphasize sufficiently the importance of my early life as a forest creature," she wrote in "A Fence Around the Cuckoo" (1992), the first volume of her autobiography.
They tried to keep Spring forever, by building a tower around the Cuckoo.
Cuckoos were so common they flew around in flocks.
It's certainly worth a try, because cuckoo numbers have dropped by around half in the last 25 years.
He claims to be fluent in HTML and Javascript, and says he knows his way around televisions, cellphones, cuckoo clocks, refrigerators, washers, dryers and sewing machines.
Bob Sipchen, a former Los Angeles Times editor and close friend who met Preis when they lived in Mount Washington, said Preis was in law school during the release of the movie "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". It was around the same time that people began leaving mental institutions, often with nowhere else to go, he recalled.
